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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
“Wake up call” 🤣
We’ll be dead before humanity wakes up
I always considered dying sleeping one of the better ways to go. But since I woke up some years back, I don't want to fall asleep again. Despite being so tired of all of this!
How many wake-up calls have we had? Now we're having hundreds of wake-up calls at once.
Why was it so hot 400 years ago?
Isn't it winter in Australia right now?
It is, but the great barrier Reef is within the tropics and so undergoes more of a wet/dry season instead of summer/autumn/winter/spring.
Somebody needs some birth control...
But how about those Aussie athletes in the swimming at the Olympics? what heroes, what talent, what a country.