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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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[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 18 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck future generations as long as we get money now right?

Every single one of those greedy bastards should be hanged in public and all that they own seized and used to fund Planet Earth recovery initiatives.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Oh boy, time for there to be literally zero consequences just like always!

[–] badmancrooks@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Shocked, I say.