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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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‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent article, thanks for sharing.

I hope they do find out what causes it to happen now, and to happen at this pace.

Countermeasures are the obvious ones, of course. People cannot prevent the oceans from doing their thing, but they can stop doing what they're doing to the atmosphere.

For those who want maps and graphs to describe the problem, this site offers a bunch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good link, thanks.