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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] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Global Emissions Peak is a bit like the Year of the Linux Desktop. (We should also keep in mind that mismeasuring of emissions is rampant, as is outright cheating. So whatever year it is determined to be, in actuality it's probably going to be later.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Organization heavily involved in global shipping says we are on the right track for emissions control"

I dunno man...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They don't even say that. They say emissions will peak which is en par with other institutions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

X to doubt, but positive hope is better than no hope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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