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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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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For sure. We need to stop talking about huge corporations and the ultra wealthy and their insane, planet poisoning emissions, and start focusing on how to make ourselves more comfortable as we die.

It's time to stop worrying about "fixing" any of this, and move on to hospice care.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but excising the root cancer is also important, else it’s a losing battle.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think the original comment is sarcastic, but it could be read as extreme doomerism.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oops, you’re right. I ate that onion with the skin, roots and dirt.