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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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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! I've been eating healthy and staying active <3

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Proud of you

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 weeks ago

I have lost five pounds. Thanks for noticing.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well they're just doing what they can to make Oompah J Loompah's claim of the US being the hottest country a reality

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

The nyt spells out the disaster but cannot clearly state a solution, because there is none: unless a revolution. And that will not happen.

Anyone, able to read now, will be remembered as part of the generations that could not, and would not, act: perpetually complaining about being powerless.