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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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[โ€“] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the headline is somehow meaningless. You can't put those words together and construct something that makes sense. I don't think anxiety of any kind would be considered a luxury.

Further analysis gets even more muddled, because while anxiety in itself can be challenging for people, I don't think you would want to define that as the pressing problem here. The authors know that, so they're trying to get cute, but it ends up creating a situation where you don't know what they're talking about because they're using words in misleading ways.

[โ€“] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not being anxious about the climate is a sign of priviledge or denial