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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Even more ominously, those surging temperatures are quickly jeopardizing the most ambitious target that nations around the world agreed to in the Paris climate agreement more than eight years ago
Who would have thought that writing a bunch of good wishes on paper doesn’t make them come true.
So, we are roughly at 1.5C 😬
We'll try on +2.0 this summer, just to give it a whirl. That shipping fuel sulfur was masking a lot
We were accidentally geoengineering this whole time and stopped abruptly, it seems.