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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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As record heat risks bleaching 73% of the world’s coral reefs, scientists ask ‘what do we do now?’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] MeaanBeaan 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well shit. I thought we were supposed to ask the scientists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well they told us what to do, and we aren't doing it. So they are asking what options are left to them now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

scientist reaches for a rifle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

American Scientist noises are intensifying and I like it