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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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[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nor will we ever be. It would cost too much.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These brown people don't bomb themselves you know

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly, we need the nextest of next gen warplanes to continually bomb the middle east well beyond the total collapse of civilization.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Will the right-wingers realise climate change exists once their houses are swept away or they otherwise experience the wrath of climate change?

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Was it climate change or god? They believe in one and not the other, so...... Would they still deny climate change and say it was god?

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They will. They will blame the democrats though because they'll expect the government to give them money for all their damaged possessions

Don't forget, these are people who like to believe EVs are less environmentally friendly than large trucks

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean large trucks have been on earth for FOREVER and we were FINE but now they invented EVs and now it's becoming hot ON PURPOSE. Clearly they want US to buy the cars that's why. WAKE UP.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

Don't forget. They want us in EVs so the guberment can control us

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

But that's a government handout. I thought they didn't like that 🤔 Isn't that socialism?

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/

list of billion dollar disasters annually in the US

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

They will blame the refugees who lost their homes instead.

Oh boy they will. But it won't be like 'Oi, climate change is real, let's do something', it will be more like they always knew and didn't want the public to panic, didn't want to change the economy so the people would enjoy soy sauce for a few more years

[–] WHARRGARBL@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

While it’s infuriating to see millions of people denying the existence of climate change, formerly known as global warming, the fact is that we are in the 6th mass extinction, a truth that billions of people from all ideologies are afraid to face.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

understatement

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

That's ILLEGAL to say in the Freeest State in America Florida!

[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Numenor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That building has had enough and is walking away

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Won't somebody think of the economy!

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

...what's Baba Yaga doing in the US?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago