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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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Is Climate Change Fueling Europe’s Heat Wave? Yes, Researchers Say. (www.nytimes.com)
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A scientific analysis concluded that such high temperatures, across so much of the continent, would “not have been possible” without global warming.

Human-caused climate change made this month’s roasting heat in Western Europe much more likely than it would have been even just two decades ago, scientists said Friday, highlighting the rapidly escalating risks to health and livelihoods from the burning of fossil fuels.

The report itself is here

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[–] SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I understand the need to research this, but...

FUCKING DUH, HOLY SHIT

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

Damn, if only we had known this would be a problem ahead of time 😩