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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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[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh boy. Wait till you learn about long haul trucking...

Ever been to a truck rest stop? Each one has dozens of semi trucks, all idling their engines, all night. There are 10s of thousands of such stops across the US.

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm well aware. Not sure what your point is. That's also bad.

[–] Thegods14@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He thinks you're a noob because you still let the fact that we're all gonna get fucked in the end by the oligarchy doing nothing to better our one and only world embolden you to feel frustrated (for good reason) at your obtuse surroundings.

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 points 3 days ago

Nah, I was pissed at exhaust emissions long before it was cool. Trolls gonna troll, though.