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:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Just imagine burning up the top 7.5cm of ground in the whole world. The whole atmosphere would be covered in a thick cloud of smoke.
This, combined with the fact that global emissions have skyrocketted since the late 80s, which is also (not coincidentally) when UK hugely ramped down it's national coal production, really make me wonder the total mass of fossil fuels burned (not just produced)!
It's all metric until the final part ๐ญ
The curse of using English as a proxy language
You'd think 3 inches is not that much. But that's a trap.
Holy FUCK.
I didn't realize it would be that much.