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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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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, climate change is clearly a myth, just look at the data . . .

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fake news, fake data

I'm being a sarcastic little shit, btw

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's unfortunately not possible to tell the difference between this kind of sarcasm and the outright serious denial that the fossil fuels industry pays to put in front of people.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well the good citizens in The Australian state of Qld just voted in a climate denying party, and got rid off the the only two Green politcans in the state government, so I'd suggest voting for the "Leopard at my Face Party" should work out all for all of Australia, with emissions here in Aus. still increasing.