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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

FYI it's a gift link, so you should have access without needing to do that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It did not work for me, and someone had already archived it, so I shared that link for others with the same problem. I am not in the USA, nor in an English speaking country. I also do not like giving the NYT any traffic.

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

nytimes abuses their visitors with heavy javascript. scripts have to be allowed even on gift articles, so there is some benefit to alternate links.