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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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[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This is great news IMO. The more painful real affects of the climate crisis hits the US, the more real it gets, hopefully driving action.

In this case we get a double whammy of reduced consumption and pain.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You think the average American could put two and two together in this situation?

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many of the people they surveyed agreed with climate politics because it was on record?

We see politicians and celebrities talk about helping the climate, then get on their private jet for a 40min flight cause they don't want to sit in traffic for 1hr.

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That is the whole point of the study. People support measures but think people don't.

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