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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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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Long, informative, definitely worth a read - and depressing.

If natural climate fails to deliver water, and neigbours claw away what they can while it's upstream - this means either desalination, condensing water out of air (I would prefer if this technology was needed on Mars)... or just retreating from a place where nothing worthwhile can be done.

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

Both desalination and condensation tend to be incredibly energy-intensive, which limits their use. It's going to take solar getting a bunch cheaper before we see them used at scale for irrigation

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those fields used to be known as Twitter.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

If only it was as inconsequential as Twitter