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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] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you know people aren't already overloaded with fear? The fear of losing your job and livelihood because your employer just mildly dislike you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That italicized "mildly" just resonated with me a little too much.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar 10 points 1 year ago

No. It's okay. Companies are going zero carbon via carbon credits. Everything is fine /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Been terrified for well over twenty years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty terrified, might not want kids because of it and other reasons. But not sure yet.

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

Because we care more about presidents son naked images.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Something something hunter biden laptop jewish space laser illuminati democrat climate hoax...

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[–] schroedingershat 3 points 1 year ago

100 years of propaganda telling everyone not to worry about it?

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

Pretty much panicking, funnily enough I'd resigned myself (still tried to life a green life) until having kids, but you've got to try and do everything you can otherwise what future are we giving them?