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

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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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[–] silence7 1 points 1 year ago

The tiny part in this about climate says this:

#Climate Change

Climate change harms bats. In North America, extreme temperatures and drought are the biggest threats to bats from climate change. Bats fail to reproduce or die without enough water. Heat waves and severe winter storms have already killed many bats, and these extreme conditions continue to threaten bats and other wildlife. Renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, emit little to no greenhouse gases and are helpful toward combating climate change; however, wind energy must be managed carefully to avoid killing unsustainable numbers of bats.