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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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[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

anyone that thinks people will say 'oh these guys are doing something I feel is stupid, I better learn what they have to say' has never met a single human in their life.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

That's funny, you realize not everyone will jump to the conclusion it was 'stupid' right away? Most will say, "they did what? Why?" Aka curiosity. We learn more. We understand. Then we decide if it's stupid or not.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yet that's pretty much exactly what I did.