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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hug yourself tightly, knowing that you didn’t ask to be born into this timeline, but having been born into it against your will, refuse to play.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Live out of spite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

spite is one of those underrated emotions that just pops up and owns the day every so often. gotta love that plucky spite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And suddenly I wake up in a video arcade to some pimple faced ride operator saying, “Sorey dude, I don’t think your brain like ‘Sim Billionaire!’”