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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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Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon | A new USDA report finds forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070 (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[โ€“] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jfc.

I'm seriously losing all hope for a future where my grandkids are safe. Or my kids.

I believe that you need optimism to be an effective advocate for the future. Does anybody have anything hopeful regarding climate change? I'm at the bottom of the barrel here and not really finding anything

[โ€“] Clayborne 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Take action if you can. I wont tell you what that looks like for you, but decide what you think will be the most effective and do it.

For some thats individual action. Planting a tree, composting, biking more, etc.

For others its political engagement. Protests, petitions, running for local office.

For others its civil disobedience and other resistance actions. Think big profile stories right now involving more drastic action (extinction rebellion, etc).

I will of course tell you that last category can involve taking potentially profound legal risks.

I will not tell you which I think is the most effective. You need to decide what you think and what you are willing to do.

But take action. At this stage take action because we need more action and doing something about it is the only sure way we can have hope things will get better.

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