this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
17 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5818 readers
670 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
17
Chart: Global investment in the energy transition surpasses $2T (www.canarymedia.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it a transition or just addition?

[โ€“] spidermanchild 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's both. Electrified transport and electrified heat are displacing fossil use directly. Global ICE sales peaked in 2017 and appear to be in permanent decline.

What matters is total carbon, and unfortunately 2024 appears to have been another record year. Hopefully 2024 was peak and 2025 is the start of declining carbon. Every other metric is just an interesting part of the overall story.