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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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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

If anyone is delusional enough to think that a different administration will make leaps in tackling this problem then Im impressed.

Do you really think our lack of action as a species is because someone is or isn’t a president of one country?

Is Harris going to cancel capitalism on day one? Ban fossil fuel and plastics? No? Then we’re still accelerating towards a wall even though our chances if stopping are long gone.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, the problem is a lot larger and more complicated than that. America is not the world

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

USA is the number 1 polluter per capita already. Think about how much more USA would pollute under Trump and then try to tell that that wouldn't negatively affect the world

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To have a minimum chance to survive we as society need to overthrow the neoliberalism.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Soooo... reservation for 1 at the end times diner?