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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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[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

water gas is a particularly intense greenhouse gas :p

[–] SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly! You only have to boil so much before it starts a feedback loop and boils itself off. It's efficiency is genius! Say it with me: "the solution to pollution is dilution."

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 1 week ago

I think nuclear war is maybe a better option. If we nuke the usa several imbalances are corrected:

  1. turnabout is fair play
  2. nuclear winter buys us time
  3. radiation might help new live forms that can handle living in an irradiated, heat blasted, wasteland evolve

That way we can keep the oceans.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

The car runs on water, man!