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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have tremendous respect for Thunberg, but I’m worried about her future. After becoming internationally famous, she’ll have a hard time growing up to be a well-adjusted adult.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bruh she's the most well-adjusted child i've ever seen get famous i think she'll be ok

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That’s a good point. She’s not some child actor reading from a script.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

From her perspective her future is already fucked up thanks to all the adults in the room, so she probably doesn't care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

She's 20 years old. I think this is what she looks like as an adult.