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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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If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say it's about being lucky, so much as realizing that if you simply stew in your own gloominess, you get nothing done. It takes actively going out there and changing the world.

[โ€“] neanderthal 1 points 1 year ago

This. Who else is going to do it? There are lots of ways to contribute.

No matter how bleak things seem, if it is still possible to turn things around, we need to keep fighting.

Here are some pretty amazing comebacks from US football:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_comebacks_in_NFL_games

This coming year is a major election year in the US. If all of us in the US give it everything we've got, we could really ramp up turning this around. Let's treat 2024-11-05 with the same seriousness as d-day.