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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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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The short version is as the title suggests, warming accelerating pretty dramatically, and based on recent studies we're fast approaching a hump that if we cross over, would likely result in a runaway situation that could not be fixed on human timescales. It's getting so bad even business analysis of the issue is suggesting drastic changes, such as not waiting for market forces to transition away from fossil fuels, but instead suggest governments globally super-charge the build-out of renewable energy sources.

What isn't said in the video: Basically unless we get off capitalism very soon (especially combined with the knowledge from a different study that suggests the atmosphere may become toxic to humans in the later half of this century), we're potentially looking at mass extinction much sooner than expected if we continue with our current way of life.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

suggesting drastic changes, such as not waiting for market forces to transition away from fossil fuels, but instead suggest governments globally super-charge the build-out of renewable energy sources.

We can already expect USA to say "NOOOOOOOO, MAH PROFEEEETS!!! YOU'RE HURTING MAH PROFEEEEEEETS!!!"

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Pretty much all industrialists, tech-bros, and billionaires will be screeching that the world over, as there's virtually no place left that isn't chock full of multinational corporations. I guess they turned out to be the final boss for humanity.

I'm rooting for us pulling through, but it'll take global grassroots organizing, militant unions, and a shit ton of mutual aid to prevent them from literally killing us all due to their mindless greed and lust for power.

[–] JillSteinsPuckeredAnus@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

The sun will burn a hole right through...
Your parasols.
The clouds so sick they've split in two...
From aerosols.
The air will fill your lungs with fists...
For ev'ry breath.
'Til future days when life exists...
To mirror death.