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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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Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why (www.wbur.org)
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[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Is nobody here reading the actual article? The article isn't saying that the world and humanity are doomed. It's saying that a 1.5c degrees limit is basically impossible, but that every 0.1c above that is still worth fighting against! Please don't comment a bunch of doomer stuff, because while the kitchen is on fire, we can still fight to save the rest of the house damnit! Every "we're doomed, let's give up." Is another win for the fossil fuel industry and the people in power.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this. The powers that caused the crisis want you to give up. They want you to think its hopeless and inevitable, because if it isn't, revolution is the only option in the face of their obstruction. And not a small revolution either - it will be one that is simultaneously political, economic, and cultural.

And such a revolution is inevitable - the question is whether or not it will be one of positive change, or one that arises from the world's collapse into chaos and fire.

The powers behind the crisis intentionally manufacture and market despair to keep you from uniting with others to fight against the slow heat death of the world. Don't buy into it.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The powers that caused this don't think about you at all. They won, it's over my guy. We are past the point of no return lol.

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