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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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[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

This seems to be about 5 years old. And look where we are. Motherfuckers ain’t listening.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its not economically beneficial to save the economic system

Economic system = our planet

Tbh, my outlook on the planet in the next 50~60 years is similar to what was shown in the movie with Tom Hanks Finch (2021). Vast part of the planet probably becoming uninhabitable with a few habitable patches here or there.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can you repost it somewhere that isn't catbox?

[–] ujeenator@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

hmm, any suggestions? I don't want to use youtube

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the deal with catbox?

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 week ago

A lot of people can't connect to it, me included