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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I like the doomer deep adaptation approach. It's too late to stop climate change but it's urgent and effective to reduce it and to find adaptations for it. Infinite hope for what is possible. Mourning what is not possible and burying it and moving on with optimism wherever possible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm with you on that. I'm not giving up I'm just not the kind of person that can ignore the scope of the problem. In fact, I think it's impossible to address the problem without a solid understanding of where we stand, no matter how uncomfortable that may be to acknowledge.