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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
We are getting tons more heavy rains in my region (which isn’t coastal and about 600 ft above sea level), and flooding, while still mostly relatively minor, has been happening considerably more often than it used to.
It isn’t going to be just the coasts losing housing - a lot of people use basements for actual living space, even whole apartments, and with increased storm flooding that may not be safe in the future.
Didn’t it start forcing people from their homes like 10 years ago? There’s a town in the southern US that’s completely under water now.