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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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[–] Grogon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Most people do not care. And the people who do not care have little to no access to education and the people who do also do not care because they have A/C homes.

And if you say something people resist to understand what is going on because "it doesn't exist" they say and it is fake news.

Not only are we forced to deal with climate crisis, also a crisis of missinformation.

I don't think we can do much at all because once people realise what we are doing it will be at a point of no turn - if not already.

People distrust politicians generally but believe them when they deny climate change due to alignment with their economic interests, social identity, and a preference for short-term concerns over long-term issues.

Mindblown.

This world isn't going to be the same in ten years from now. AI is awesome, but currently we are on a path to "People with AI vs People not using AI" and if you don't understand AI now, ....

We can't escape AI usage. People resting on this subject are the first who are going to be invisible. The thing is how AI is advancing you can't rest. It's creeping on us and you can't escape.

Again, AI isn't bad. It is awesome but currently it will bring a lot of problems.