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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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Take a look at these quotes from articles from the past 120 years. What can we make from them? Is climate change actually a big of a deal as it's claimed? The fact that "climate change" is such political issue gives me doubt. Any political talking point should always be scrutinized and criticized. Politicians have an agenda and will use anything they can to push that agenda.

I'm not here to argue about climate change being real or not. Rather, I would like opinions about the website I shared

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[–] Bluetreefrog 3 points 4 months ago

You are correct, we shouldn't buy in to 'commonly accepted narratives'. The world is complex and gaining a deep understanding of any one topic is the work of a lifetime. There is no way we can learn enough about everything to have an informed and educated opinion on every topic that we have to deal with over the course of our lives.

Making this more challenging is the fact that human brains are not very rational. They are rationalising. Think about that for a minute. It's helpful to realise that about other people, but the real value is when you turn that lens back on yourself. Learning to think rationally takes a lot of training and hard work. The kind of work that scientists do to learn their discipline. Shock jocks are definitely not good places to go for for rational thought and conclusions. They are selling a product. Outrage. Which is in many ways the exact opposite of rationality.

By necessity, we have to stand on the shoulders of experts. If you want to decide how you feel about a topic look to the experts and disregard mouthpieces with no qualifications.

The IPCC reports are the output of real research by real experts. You should read them if you haven't already.