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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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[โ€“] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We've needed to recalibrate for awhile. We sometimes forget what percentage of the population we actually are, and how many people prefer ... more old fashioned and dangerous ways of looking at things, come what may.

There'll be a comeback though. Unlike the conservatives, progressives are inherently proficient at adapting and learning from setbacks. Change is our mantra, after all.

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Awhile or three weeks as Macron defines it. Well it is two now. I hope that liberal knows what he is doing.