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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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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds (www.livescience.com)
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[–] 1984@lemmy.today -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Nobody knows the future, least of all some "study".

New people will be born, new technology will exist, new goals will be set.

I also think we are moving towards a bad future with no freedom and lots of censorship, with Ai, robots and implants, probably also world government and corruption.

I dont think the weather is going to be our worst problem. Its going to be ourselves.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The weather is going to be our worst problem in 50 years.

[–] andymouse@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I suppose our second worst problem will be ourselves, reacting in our various ways to that worst problem.

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