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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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Can we keep this community global? (self.climate)
submitted 1 year ago by sudoreboot to c/climate
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It's almost exclusively about USA right now and frankly I'm sick of this US-centrism.

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[–] Quill7513 3 points 1 year ago

Generally speaking, you want to organically fragment communities when there's enough activity that you can't keep up with the parts you care about because the feed is noisy from other content. At this point, slrpnk.net is not to that point at all. I don't think anyone here would be bothered by people posting more global stuff. As of now, if we split off slrpnk.net communities into US and Global versions of the community, I'd expect the result to be all the same activity in the US communities and the Global communities being completely dead.

TL;DR: We can't post more non US stuff for you. If you have some stuff you'd like to share, we'd be thrilled to look at it