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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How do we save an endangered animal like the Key deer when "we know, no matter what, we're going to lose its habitat in the future?"

The answer was to not destroy their habitat and turn the temperature up on the planet further eliminating habitat.

This article sheds human responsibility so badly.

[Humans set the house on fire] "how much should we do to save what's inside? We know, no matter what, they will lose their habitat"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We’re basically committed to this much sea level rise at this point, even if we were to stop all emissions immediately (which is also impossible).

I suspect most of those working to conserve the key deer agree that we should be aggressively reducing emissions but whether we do or don’t it still leaves the question of what to do with these animals. Some species have already gone extinct due to sea level rise, and more will soon unless something is done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And who made it so the sea level rise reaches that point?

Humans are to blame. We either help fox our problems, or continue to hide behind articles and sentiments that humans have to adapt to the change. Humans are the change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

One of the very first lines in the article says humans caused sea level rise, yes. This is an article about how we can help fix our problems, which will include adaptation. The idea that we won’t or shouldn’t take actions to adapt to climate change is frankly absurd at this point. So I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say here. Just give up? Let the world fall apart?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Iidk what my problem is in communicating. I am backing up your argument.