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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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Can We Air-Condition Our Way Out of Climate Change? No. But in the midst of intense heat waves it may be necessary to save lives. (nautil.us)
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[โ€“] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If data centers can create heat islands, heat pumps coupled to ac units at a similar scale can make cool islands? Shove heat into the earth using solar. Wise guys, why not?

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

I mean yeah. thats geo thermal. we can actually make energy from that to and it does not require sun or wind. The limit is drilling holes is hard and expensive. One bright spot is there is this laser drilling which may make it easier and more affordable. Basically no tip to wear out.