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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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Urgent Awakening – Unveiling the Devastating Reality of the Climate Crisis (farrellperks.substack.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, both for the great piece and this comment. To me, comments like these matter. It can be so incredibly hard not to feel overwhelmed and defeated in the face of all this news. Also, I sometimes get pessimistic because I feel that the people who read news regarding climate change are already aware of it (amd trying to make a change), and people who don’t want to know just stick their head in the sand…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the kind words, and I couldn't agree more!

Awareness is half the battle a lot of times, there may well be some fatigue with the issue, but it's still as imperative as ever to make sure it's front and centre.