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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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The only way to save coral reefs: a rapid phase out of fossil fuels (heated.world)
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[โ€“] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The only way to solve the microplastic pollution of every form of life: rapid cessation of plastic use and immediate action to remove all known plastic from the environment.

Will it happen? No.

We all know what needs to happen. The key question is HOW?

Lemmy posts?

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

Israel seems to have a plan. By causing massive fighting in the Middle East, a huge part of the worlds oil and gas supply can be cut off. Bombing the Iranian consulate was a great plan. Unfortunatly it is backfiring. Biden being a fool tries to exchange the invasion of Rafah and with that that the full genocide of the people in Gaza for not fighting Iran. That might mean that it backfires and Trump gets elected. Foolish of him presidents who start wars get reelected.

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