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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] 8 points 11 hours ago

If we cut our emissions by 40% in the next decade... What? We only have to live through a mild apocalypse? We're already at 1.5°C ffs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Governments no longer fit to govern

[–] Coreidan 2 points 6 hours ago

A tale as old as time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Did those experts miss the part where the precious ones were held in dubai?

[–] Bookmeat 3 points 11 hours ago

This says more about the attendees than the talks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

never where