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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what you are saying is that men who ride bikes are more fertile?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Urban cyclist are much more exposed to air pollution ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fun fact:

tight fitting jeans are thought to have an influence on testicular cancer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a positive or negative one? asking for a friend.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

yes, it was not about the temperature so much, but about the constant pressure by the tightness of the jeans.

women have the same for breast cancer: bras have an impact on breast cancer. the more you wear, the higher the risk to develop breat cancer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So what I'm seeing is that we need more electric vehicles!