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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] 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Don't you love it when the universe gives you the perfect gift.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Democrats need to begin to understand that even if they don't think they're at war, Republicans do. They should start fighting like it.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 9 months ago (2 children)

climate change: lol I'm going to erase Florida.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

DeSantis and anyone who follows him really are fools. Same with the Trump fans. Fools. There is no other way to put it nicer. I hope the smart people in Florida step up and make some noise, but they are probably busy moving out.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What could go wrong it’s not like Florida is at any risk for damage from rising seas right!?!?? Right!?!?!?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They'll just blame it on wokeness

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Rising seas aside, Florida has already been hit by some major hurricanes in recent years and hurricanes are predicted to just get worse with climate change.

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