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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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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he doesn’t blame himself. I feel horrible when I can’t make the regressives around me understand the situation we’re in. I can’t imagine having access to speak before Congress and getting a big shrug.

[–] Syl@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not an american, but this is a global problem. "We" didn't educate properly our people, and this is the result. We elected the people we deserve, and those are some greedy fucks.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Tragedy of the commons. Even if, and when people realize the problem; no country will act because other countries aren’t acting. I have hope we will act, I’m afraid it may be too late.

[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Conservatives did this. They continue to protect corporate interests to profit from our deaths. Conservatism is a plague of death and should be erased.