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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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[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Agree with key messages, like the novel rate-per-decade plot. Most people seem unaware of the huge influence of declining sulphate emissions - good news is that's short-term-ish. We could also make a quick difference by reducing methane, even quicker aviation cirrus.
You can explore similar plots with contributions to radiative forcing in my SWIM model (note - gases /forcings not so up to date as above, but wider range of topics).