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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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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory | With all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected (www.nature.com)
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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 8 months ago (19 children)

woo...

We've really got to start doing some drastic measures or we're fucked

[–] Blaubarschmann@feddit.de 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yes but this ain't happening, so we're fucked

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Technically speaking we are “turbo fucked”

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maximum overfucked. It will be interesting to witness the fall of civilization.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We already are, bud.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

We just need to hold on for another 40 years or so

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

not with that attitude.

change can happen really fast if thats what people actually want.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online -2 points 8 months ago

On the bright siden (/s.this portion only), Trump caused the population to be lowered significantly.

It wasn't very effective, so we're still fucked.

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