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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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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Did you know small airplanes still dump lead into the air? I don’t see RFK getting upset about that actual MAHA problem.

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-determines-lead-emissions-aircraft-engines-cause-or-contribute-air-pollution

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's because it creates Republican voters.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

poor people downwind dont pay RFK Jr lots of money. Rich people fly airplanes

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Rich people eat food and take protein powder contaminated by the lead that has fallen over crops. I guess they are too stupid to realize they’re affected too. 🤷‍♂️

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

I like the idea of drawing a clear line between MAHA problems and actual problems.