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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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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like the vast majority should stop cooperating with the incentivized minority in the profit fuelled death cult.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's good that so many people want action, but we have to remember some are feckless liberals who desperately want action right up to the moment it starts to inconvenience them. A poll about specific actions and their consequences would be more informative.

[–] lost@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, a lot of people chose to prioritise Palestine over the climate.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can attend to both. Genocides are important too.

[–] lost@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 day ago

Turns out you attended to neither, though.