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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] 4 points 29 minutes ago

Don't look up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 minutes ago

I had someone tell me the other day that the whole worlds gonna get cancer and end because 5g network towers have to be 400 yards apart and within 10 years everyone's gonna have cancer and die ending the world. I was like while I don't think radio waves are good for us, I had to ask.. What pipe are you smoking off of?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago

I hope his home gets destroyed by a climate-induced natural disaster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

Have fun selling Florida to Aquaman.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

There's no climate crisis, but guys, there are evil Democrat controlled weather machines that generate hurricanes and droughts! Coal power plants, mines, oil refineries, old landfills, all emit radio waves and lasers to communicate on the GHG network with satellites that generate the weather!!!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They've saved us! Just like when they fixed COVID by telling people to stop testing and then sent our tests over to Putin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

they did save us....

by losing enough elections in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Facts don’t care about your opinions. When Florida ends up underwater., when the dustbowl gets worse and people start baking, you can try to blame everything else but the fact will still remain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

The people in charge don't care about long term solutions, they want short term profits by continuing to rape the planet. They figure they would be dead before climate change actually happens or they make money from it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Im not giving an opinion, nor am I disputing the science . I'm facepalming that this level of stupidity is a reality.

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

Sorry meant to post that at the top level about the people trying to ignore the issue. That wasn’t aimed at you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

No problem at all., I appreciate the clarification. Hope you have a nice day.