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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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[–] t0m5k1@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Think you'll find the vast majority of trump supporters will disagree.

[–] HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Yup. People really underestimate how far they are willing to take shit. We are talking about the group that didn't want to admit covid was real, and didn't want to take the vaccine, so they compromised and took horse medication that was causing them to shit out the lining of their intestines.

Denying the weather will be easy for them

[–] Doxatek@mander.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

Oh. Unfortunately, yes. Yes they still can. This author needs to just start asking around haha

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

The last words ever uttered by a human being will be some climate change denying bullshit

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

They will anyway.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I like how this headline just pretends that delusion and willful ignorance don't exist.

[–] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The stubbornness of stupidity is impervious to facts, no matter how obvious the facts are. This won't change anything in the minds of the people who already don't think it's real.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago
[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Lobsters also probably love the tan they get, and how nicely relaxed their muscles feel while they’re at their hot tub.

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

“no one” is a big challenge … the ones who are on the fence could be reasoned with, and then we have those who are extremely stubborn who cannot change until it affects them directly. And those who use denial to gain power will likely continue to do so …