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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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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is it weird that the only celebrity who's getting a public print of emissions is one that is despised by a political party for getting people out to vote?

I don't really care much about her, but this feels like "how do we get young people to not listen to this person... ah, let's go with emissions".

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I knew she was full of hot air, but...

[–] iraq_lobster@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

too much hot air, enough to cause greenhouse effect .. i am not sure if you left your comment incomplete on purpose to allow me this pun or not lol nonetheless i wish everyone here a ~~good~~ cold morning/night.