this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
93 points (100.0% liked)

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

5808 readers
998 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
93
Vermont passed a bill making Big Oil pay. Now comes the hard part. (grist.org)
submitted 9 months ago by jeffw to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NarrativeBear 13 points 9 months ago

Make them pay! Use the money to make cities less car dependent and more livable. Make public transits accessible and implement trams/subways/trains.

Increase neighbourhood densification at the same time, by taking space back from car infrastructure. ie. massive car parking lots that are impossible to walk across.