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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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[–] grue 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dozens of Waffle House locations are closing up shop ahead of Milton.

Oh shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

DOZENS... has any storm ever been this bad before!?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Florida voted for global warming. This is literally what they wanted; why are they leaving?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Can you even begin to imagine how much Co2 all those tiny-penis trucks in the thumbnail are pouring out while sitting in a traffic jam?

They're just prepping next year's hurricanes