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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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Is climate change making Florida's flooding worse? almost certainly yes (www.theclimatebrink.com)
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Somebody said recently that they see climate change denial as colonization, but I see it as gentrification. The rich can usually afford to deal with the fallout of climate change, while the rest of us are a sacrifice they're willing to make.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah. The new Fallout TV series is a pretty explicit metaphor for this, lol.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

I saw a quite and I'm paraphrasing

As climate change progresses, the rich will lead more. expensive and uncomfortable lives... and the poor will die.