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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends on what you mean by too late. It is too late to feel no effects from climate change, but it exists on a sliding scale where it can always be better or worse. Stopping now and doing the right thing would still make things better, and continuing on the current path will continue to make things worse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good thing the world is globally united behind the single cause of taking action against climate change lol.