this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
286 points (99.3% liked)

Climate

8624 readers
480 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
286
A look back at ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ 20 years later | Al Gore’s famous documentary has mostly stood the test of time. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
submitted 23 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago

the clinton administration was well aware of al kaida as a threat and desperately tried during transition for the bush adminstration to see that. In addition they understood the role of the presidency in connecting the dots between different agencies intelligence reports. I like its very very likely they would have identified and stopped it before they got to the planes.