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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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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

"Of the 474 stories, they found that just 10% referenced the climate crisis — and hardly any of the stories were actually about global warming. In nine of out 10 years, climate played a central role in no more than 2% of stories."

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

....but the new yorker is owned by billionaires , right? ....billionaires who probably have vested interest in the manufacture and selling of different greenhouse gases for refrigerant or other industrial purposes(like sulfur hexapluoride) or on the extraction, manufacture , and selling of different fossil fuels and their derivatives....so if someone is using a newspaper like the new yorker for their advice on climate change it is actually THEY the reader who have lost the plot.

You have to always always alwaus think about ehat sources youre gaining 'information' from cause that source may have extreme biases created by the ulterior motives of the informant. You may just be getting your hands on some misinformation or on useless information that the informant wants to lead you to a form of analysis paralysis

[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure "percentage of fictional stories in which climate change plays a major role" is a very important metric.