this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
68 points (98.6% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5161 readers
764 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
silence7
68
“Unprecedented” youth climate trial demands action from 32 European governments (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by MrMakabar to c/climate
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MrMakabar 1 points 1 year ago

To be clear this is an international court and its rulings are unfortunatly ignored in many cases. However it also happens to be the international court, for which it happens the least and it has a good reputation globally. So a strong precedent set by the European Court for Human Rights would set a strong precedent for European courts and work as a strong argument to bring governments into complying with the Paris Accord.

So the big win is that this can create a field day to sue European fossil fuel companies and the like.