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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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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So, with his leadership, is there any chance we won't have a global climate crisis before 2061?

I need someone to convince me, please.

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why wait this long?

many places will be uncomfortable if not intolerable by 2050—around the lifespan of most mortgages—we need to start planning where we make our homes now https://time.com/6209432/climate-change-where-we-will-live/

Want it sooner? Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns

State of affairs: Global climate disaster inevitable if emissions aren't drastically reduced by 2035, U.N. warns

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

In 2061, I can see Halley's Comet with my naked eyes for the second time. It's the only thing I consistently look forward to anymore. I don't have descendants or a partner, and my best days are clearly behind me.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 33 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Does anyone care about the climate at this point?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 39 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Feels like I'm the only one to be honest.

[–] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No, there's dozens of us. Dozens!

[–] hanrahan 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I counted 8, i think you're rigging the polls/s

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

No, no, that's lemmy users. /s

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 8 points 5 hours ago

I care, but… I’m pretty exhausted at this point.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

We are keeping our carbon cap and trade system here in Washington at least. We will be helping world CO2 emissions go down 0.3% (~100 million tons out of the 35 billion tons).

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Most Americans deny climate change, so

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 21 points 6 hours ago

It's just a once in a lifetime flood, bro! Sure, it's the third one this year, but c'mon! It's just normal seasonal cycles!

/s

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I've accepted for a while now that "this is it". Despite all our meming about our retirement being dying in the coming water wars... reality won't be that far off.

As someone who always struggled to find reasons to live, I sure as hell can't see any now. This world is a literal hell unless you're rich. In that case it's your little playground and we the npc's who populate it.

I think I'd much rather save myself the trouble and suffering.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 minute ago

I plan to outlive every single one of these assholes that are going to get us all killed

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Don’t leave us you bastard. We are gonna see this through to the end.

[–] GreeNRG 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Won’t anybody rid us of this meddlesome president?

[–] MrMakabar 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 48 minutes ago

I’m not convinced he’s clever enough to control the inevitable infighting that would spring up after Trump.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Trump plans on addressing climate concerns. He's already going to put RFK Jr in charge of health and he's going to ban vaccines. Reducing the population will help lower emissions.

[–] silence7 4 points 4 hours ago

This is generally not a great way to do it, since the emissions largely coming from fossil fuel burning. Fewer people doesn't help much if we burn even more.