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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 overall message here I think is: action is still necessary, but the reality is that we're too caught up in politics and economics and we missed our chance at mitigation. Now we need to look to how to cope with what's coming.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

"Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it."

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It always seemed hilarious to me that billionaires think they'll be safe in their AI run bunkers. You need air, bitch. And food. Good luck automating that.

I vow to use my last dying breath to shove shit into your air supply.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Rich people, nobles, so on, are only so because they stand on top of a mass of people that grants them their benefits. It should be in their interest to foster and nurture the society they live in, because they stand to reap greater benefits than anybody else.

No bunker is going to shelter you from the fall of society, unless you have a plan and the skills to become a warlord or something.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even a warlord would need a whole bunch of people willing to support them.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's what I meant, unless you plan to be the baddest warlord in order to keep hold of your bunker through terror and violence, good luck

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