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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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People must understand: we in Malawi are paying for the climate crisis with our lives (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] ArgentRaven 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We won't understand until it starts happening to us. Not to worry, it'll hit everyone soon enough. The ones already alive today in our cushy first world insulated biomes will feel it.

Unfortunately, only the ones without the power to make any changes will be the ones that suffer most.

[โ€“] Madison420 1 points 4 months ago

No, we understand we just don't care because it hasn't effected us in major ways yet.