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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 the world gets hotter, could helping trees migrate northwards protect them? (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anything, but stopping the use of fossil energy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm fairly sure the climate changes described in the article are going to happen regardless of whether we cut down emissions in the immediate future.

This proposal doesn't seem like it's to "buy more time", but rather to react to warming that's already happened.