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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what is your opinion about this view?

Personal Opinion: This is as selfish (my child will save the world) and self centred as having a child to "save a marriage" is stupid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yup - the overwhelming odds say they'll both contribute and fall victim to the problem, not solve it.

We have ~7bn people alive today, and we can't muster the will to do what we know we is needed in order to survive. Instead, we'll refuse to make comparatively small compromises, and sign our children's death warrants.