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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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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So the worst possible outcome has been avoided thanks to the action we've taken to avoid climate change, and according to the mouth breathers, that's evidence it doesn't work?

Honestly, how can someone be so obviously and shamelessly stupid

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 18 hours ago

Been a standard argument of theirs for a long time. Eg: the fact that human decisionmaking limited acid rain and ozone depletion is seen as a reason to not need to address any other environmental issues

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

They’re literally fine with a guy who raped lots of young girls and can’t finish a thought.

I doubt this will change a whole lot of equations

[–] booscience@beehaw.org 3 points 18 hours ago

The Murdochs, who own the post, have been at the anti-climate science game so long I can’t remember a time in my life when it wasn’t this way.