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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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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 39 minutes ago

CEO's of insurance companies thinking of ways to not pay out

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 hours ago

I saw rent in LA county has gone up 23% in the past week

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 23 points 13 hours ago

Quick, sell flood insurance to California and wildfire insurance to Florida

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Hollywood Burning, a dramatic retelling of the inspiring true story of the '25 LA fires, coming to a theater near you!

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

🎵who can say where the road goes, where the day flows? Only time🎵

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Starring: Mel Gibson

A real victim

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 11 points 12 hours ago

It's a complex.

Issue. Complex issue. Sorry, dunno what came over me.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well, not the fires specifically, but the US has already begun the steps to monetize climate change. Why do you think there's a sudden interest in Canada and Greenland? That melting permafrost is gonna open up a lot of resources.

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Imagine all the military contracts for keeping climate refugees away!

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago

The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.

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[–] taiidan@slrpnk.net 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Just like they did after the Hawaii fires.

[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Good thing they are in the office to collaborate ideas.