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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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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago

With the world going back to coal, I'm surprised they're not considering using asbestos as fake snow again

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

Why are boomers killing the skiing industry?

[–] Reverendender@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Take that libs! No more skiing for you! Owned!

/s

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am certain it is just the weather. /s

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

It's a local occurrence /s

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's gonna snow for one day this winter and boomers go: soo, vlimate change is woke bullshit.

[–] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SpermGoobler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Woke kids and their snownouns

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

*starts complaining that snow vacations become way to expensive.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let them destroy their own vacation destinations and we'll see change happening really, really fast.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem is that it's both fast enough to be a real problem, and slow enough that shifting baselines keep people from seeing it: