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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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Hantavirus is a climate story | Scientists tell HEATED the hantavirus outbreak is a warning that climate change is scrambling the boundaries between humans, wildlife, and disease. (heated.world)
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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago

Climate is all hot weather and other peoples problems until the viruses and tick borne illnesses and the like spread.

[–] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes and the mosquitos are spreading north too

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mosquitos have been in North Ontario for hundreds of years.

[–] livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think he probably means those Aedes mosquitos that can carry Dengue and Malaria

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

oh the media...remember when we were all going to die of ebola?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mostly not because the US was able to help mount a response. We don't have that capacity anymore

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I will move my ass all the way to Antarctica to avoid the slow migration of screw flies and bot flies.