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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] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That this is even a possibility means we are soooo fucked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

When haven’t we been fucked? This world has always and will always be a shit show for poor people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Trump coulda been a villain on Captain Planet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Huh, guess the Dems should find someone who can beat him then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Biden did beat Trump. And if polling is to be believed, stands a ~50% chance of doing so again. That's actually better than a lot of other plausible Democrats

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I too, like hinging the future of a nation and the world on 50 percent chances.

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

It beats hinging it on a 40% chance.

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

Don't forget that he's helping to tackle global warming, admittedly in a Ghengis Khan sort of way in Gaza but I guess every little bit helps right?

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

At the same time they want to ban climate friendly index funds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They've already got more 'little people' than they need