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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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[–] Sludgeyy 19 points 1 month ago

What happens if you turn your kitchen sink on? Your drain shouldn't have a problem draining the amount of water.

Now take a large 5 gallon bucket of water. Dump the whole thing in your sink.

Not only is the amount of water too much for the drain but the volume of water makes it hard for the drain to even function properly.

How long is there going to be water filling in the sink? Eventually, it will all find its way out, but that takes time