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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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World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucked up as it is, I'm actually glad. Our species is so fucking evil to each other and it's horrifying to comprehend how much worse it could get if we don't destroy ourselves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm starting to feel that way too. Watching all of the killing going on in the East. Then instead of helping, the West is making a profit off of it. Eventually when things are bad enough the West will be killing each other too.

I'm ready to watch it all burn to the ground. I've got my lawn chair and popcorn. ๐Ÿ˜•