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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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‘Oh my God, what is that?’: how the maelstrom under Greenland’s glaciers could slow future sea level rise (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"How are we going to solve our climate problems?"

"The Maelstrom!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only climate problems?

ALL PROBLEMS GO IN THE MAELSTROM (spoken with the necessary amount of reverb)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"now are you gonna allow a tax audit of your foreign bank accounts, or are we gonna have a climate problem?"