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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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Excited to read about how my techno-feudalist hellscape is the Best of All Possible Worlds, in another ten years.

Getting yelled at on the Internet by 1,000 bot accounts every time I say "maybe we could make things slightly better" will be so much fun.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 month ago

Getting yelled at on the Internet by 1,000 bot accounts every time I say “maybe we could make things slightly better” will be so much fun.

What do you mean? That's what the internet is like now, except half of them aren't even bots!

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Slop sites made by GPT get fed into LLM training data hoping to influence the "search" results. Ted Chiang was right when he said "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web".

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

ai mfs are about to learn why cannibalism is such a taboo