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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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Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come (apnews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the ultra rich that pollutes our planet and it's the ultra rich that has stolen our standard of living to the point we no longer care about their pollution.

[โ€“] Archangel1313 10 points 1 day ago

It's also the ultra rich that decide whether or not solutions are worth pursuing. And it seems like they've decided not to bother anymore.