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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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Where the World Is (and Isn’t) Making Progress on Climate Change | Emissions from electricity and transportation are projected to fall over time; but industry remains a major climate challenge. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] Strider 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see those projections and I can do nothing more but laugh. Even seeing that Corona dent in those statistics. We are so fucked.

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

We need to do a lot more than we have been, that's for sure.

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

“In places like Africa and Asia, smaller electric motorcycles, mopeds and rickshaws are already displacing nearly one million barrels of oil per day.”

This is the future of personal transportation.