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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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[–] unruffled@anarchist.nexus 15 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, climate anxiety is always with me nowadays.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

So far...

I think the Thwaits Glacial week will be a rough one.

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

This is my first comment on a climate related post in a while. Also, with people in private life I pretty much stopped talking about it.

Inside, I still want to talk. But then, what to add to the discussion?

It feels like everything has been said. Many times. We understand the problem, we know what to do and what to stop doing.

It's just not happening, is it?

And then I feel like retreating again and maybe have a drink or a joint.