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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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As record heat risks bleaching 73% of the world’s coral reefs, scientists ask ‘what do we do now?’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

let's grab some ice from Halley's comet and dump it in the ocean.../s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thus solving the problem once and for all!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

...ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!..shutup...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lets grab some water from the sea, freeze it, and launch it at Halleys Comet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Matt Groening has a talent for bringing together smart people to tell us how fucked we are.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You have the highest IQ on the planet, don't you not sure?

Xkcd did a "what if" on this. It doesn't end well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

did you not see the futurama? hahahahahhahaha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have you not seen Idiocracy? XD XD XD XD