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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I fondly remember the days when rising sea levels, "sometime in 2100 or whenever" was the main climate-related thing. That was nice. Back then, the idea of tipping points was the realm of wild-eyed doomers that no one took seriously. Heat domes? Wildfires? Ocean death? Mass migration? Just science fiction.
Ahh, good times.
Now we have BBC printing stuff like this:
“It’s going to be like Mad Max.” “There will be no humanity. There will be no charity. There will be no fairness...
Very interesting article. I am very curious about the project they mentioned in Niger, if anyone has more information.
100%. Would also like to find out more.
And 20 percent of islands grew, a few of them because humans had created new land.
Well - pfft - I think you could discount those parts!