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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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Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too | When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that science is separate from society (www.nature.com)
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Science should strive to be separate from society. The purest idea of science is that it is simply the true observational facts about the world. Testable, and reproducible by others. We shouldn't strive to include more emotions in scientific discovery, we should strive to exclude it. Science isn't a religion. It doesn't require 'belief' or anything of the sort. It is simply discovery, and it should remain that way.