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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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[โ€“] riodoro1 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

vote

Stopped reading right there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No shit, right? Cuz, I mean, it's clearly making a difference and all, just look at the graph! ๐Ÿ™ƒ

I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills anymore, i swear

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The whole point is that not enough people are voting. Look at how many people stayed home in the most recent US election.

What I'm trying to say if people wanted to make a big impact on climate change they should organize and rally around people who want to stop climate change.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, you got a better, actionable, idea?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@Liz @Linedotdatdot relevant: https://awful.systems/post/3171972 "12 ways we can exploit fossil fuel industry vulnerabilities - even under Trump"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Hells yeah. Will read.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But you could have gotten to the NPR link.