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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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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Its us or the capitalists and its even too late for that

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still worth going after them, though

[–] WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We could make sweet decorative boats out of their bloated waxy corpses and drag them out for parades.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was said Capitalist will sell you the rope with which to hang them with...we just need to find what the rope is

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shooting ropes. 🍆💦

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, we done fucked up. Who woulda thunk that burning many many millions of years of stored carbon in around 2 centuries would have had a negative effect?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How it feels being a millennial.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

We are all in the same boat regardless of age, except for the billionaires.