this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2024
133 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5395 readers
139 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
133
Three-quarters of the world's land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth' (grist.org)
submitted 4 days ago by Garibaldee@lemm.ee to c/climate@slrpnk.net
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

Right, the future is gunna be crazy.

There's gunna be wandering groups of water bandits, drowned cities, satellites randomly falling from the sky, extreme weather events that consistently push the edge of intensity.

Mudslides will wipe out entire communities, wildfires will burn unopposed. Disease will run rampant from the dead and decaying.

I'd be interested in seeing the nature documentaries about how nature recovered from how we destroyed the planet, but in a few thousand years, David Attenborough will probably be retired.