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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 66 points 7 months ago (24 children)

If only there were a Kingdom whom we could engage, one that naturally and enthusiastically removes carbon dioxide from the air. There must be an answer, maybe if we plant a seed, metaphorically speaking, a long standing solution will grow to fruition.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago (21 children)

That sounds like a lot of work though

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 15 points 7 months ago (20 children)

That's the nifty part, members of the Plant Kingdom do all the heavy lifting on this. We just need to assist a bit.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

that's the neat part, we don't even need to assist just get out of the way. and that's going to happen sooner than later.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Oh! I know how to do that!

*dies*

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago

They’re now using these with drones instead of cargo jets. The drones can plant 100k trees a day!

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