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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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US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once (apnews.com)
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Underlying this is a jet stream gone wild, Maue and Chenard said.

The jet stream is the river of air that moves weather from west to east on a roller coaster-like path. Usually, the plunges are as mild as a kiddie roller coaster. But now that jet stream is barreling down near-vertical, scream-inducing drops, followed by straight-up ascents.

“Which means you get a lot of extremes next to each other,” Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, “grab access to that cold air reservoir up there” and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

Numerous studies have connected unusual jet stream and polar vortex activity to shrinking Arctic sea ice and human-caused climate change.

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[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Surely, this is how Captain Planet is born

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 1 points 2 weeks ago

Planetina

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

The power is yours.

Like he don't exist if don't figure out how to utilize our strengths together

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We live during dark times.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If humanity makes it into a future, it will be called the Second Dark Age.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 1 points 2 weeks ago

There need to be historians in the future to call it.

[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East. On Wednesday, Washington, D.C., residents walked around in shorts in record-breaking 86 degrees Fahrenheit (about 30 C). On Thursday, it snowed.

I just can't fathom how most people can experience things like that without thinking twice about it. Sounds akin to a biblical plague.