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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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[–] PopOfAfrica 26 points 8 months ago (5 children)

The climate is just not going to survive period. Democrats also don't have the will to do anything on this topic.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The climate will be fine, we however, are fucked.

[–] MotoAsh 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Humans survive better than most animals. What do you think the world will look like if not even the apex species will survive?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm sure some bacteria and virus will survive the Venus like conditions for a short while

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