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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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[–] tokyorock 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is what the articles mean when they say that the poor will bear the brunt of climate change.

Can't afford to abandon your home and start from scratch in another state? Good luck being homeless.

There will have to be some systematic changes on a federal level to help this crisis. Either relocating people from high-risk areas, or rethinking the role of private insurance in our lives.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Federal goverment has been back stopping entire charade for decades as is.

Rich people with ocean front property must no suffer.

[–] Yepthatsme@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conservative ding bat Ben Shapiro told people just sell them and move. Sell them to who Ben?

[–] fear@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is easy! You sell your house to a wealthy landlord and watch it get turned into a rental. And then you watch it sit vacant for a year because the landlord is asking triple a mortgage payment/month and a $300 application fee.