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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] 4 points 1 day ago

Ngl I’m kinda waiting for another meltdown like that because maybe then I’ll be able to buy a fucking house as I close in on my 40th goddamn birthday

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The economy won't function without denial. 2008 was only due to high risk mortgages. To face the fact that countless areas will be destroyed by natural disasters, and their value will not be backed by insurance... The value loss is something nobody wants to acknowledge, the economy would never be the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This concept pop up every years and each time i am surprise by how happy i am for US politicians to be forced to acknowledge climate change and then sad for all those people priced out of living at a fair price in a safe place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago