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:
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I listened to a podcast a couple of months ago that was about some international agreement that got rid of a bunch of pollution that was going to make this year MUCH warmer.
I'll find it if anyone's interested.
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/105-leon-simons
That'd be awesome, would love to give that a listen.
I'd definitely like to hear it. Weird that getting rid of pollution would cause warming! I'm no scientist though.
The kind of pollution targeted by the ban was sulphate aerosols from bunker fuel in shipping. Ironically, deliberately spraying sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere is often proposed as an anti-warming geoengineering strategy to mitigate climate change. I guess now we have proof it works
Yeah, we just have to poison our skies to slow down (not stop) climate change. No way that is going to bite us in the ass.