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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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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean outside of the gouging?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. Some specific items (eg: olive oil, chocolate) are in short supply compared with historic norms.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So “some” food prices.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

For now, yes.

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So now Kroger can blame the climate when they stop pretending they are raising prices because of inflation and shoplifting

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Line must go up!

Doesn't matter that people go hungry or farmers go out of business, or satan gets our soul.

Line go up!