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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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More than 1,000 climate scientists urge public to become activists (www.theguardian.com)
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Wolfgang Cramer’s first involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was in the 90s. He worked on the second assessment report, delivered in 1995, which affirmed the science of anthropogenic climate breakdown. At that point, no one could say they did not know what was happening.

Almost three decades on, Cramer was part of the international scientific team that prepared the sixth IPCC report. Its conclusion, delivered in March, issued human civilisation a bleak “final warning” – the biosphere stands on the brink of irrevocable damage.

Now, as diplomats meet in Dubai for the 28th round of the Cop climate talks, in a year predicted to be the hottest on record, and as carbon emissions continue to rise, Cramer is one of 33 IPCC authors among 1,447 scientists and academics in signing an open letter calling on the public to take collective action to avert climate breakdown.

“We are terrified,” they warn. “We need you.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It just feels hopeless. Activism, protests, hell, even irrefutable scientific evidence aren't enough to convince anyone in a position to enact actual positive change. It all comes down to the almighty bottom line.

Until environmentalism becomes more profitable than raping the planet, nothing is going to change. I try my best, but there's only so much I can do as an individual. Its pretty depressing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Climate stress is a thing now. A good de-stressor IMO is to take individual actions. E.g.

Note that individual actions are obviously not a replacement for activism against systemic problems. It just gives stress relief to eliminate reasons to blame yourself while still pursuing collective climate action.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Protests are just asking people who have a vested interest in keeping things going to change. They haven't really worked since occupy got smashed, because people in power know they can just get away with deploying tanks and bulldozers.

However, one person's actions can make it much more expensive to keep going in the wrong direction. Direct action gets the goods. Google "monkeywrenching." There's a long history of people saving themselves when people on power refuse.