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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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[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Huh, guess the Dems should find someone who can beat him then

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Biden did beat Trump. And if polling is to be believed, stands a ~50% chance of doing so again. That's actually better than a lot of other plausible Democrats

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I too, like hinging the future of a nation and the world on 50 percent chances.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

It beats hinging it on a 40% chance.

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