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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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Helene left at least 119 people dead and communities ‘wiped off the map.’ Now, survivors are struggling to get food and water | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait a minute! I just saw a post saying Trump was lying about the impact and federal response!!

Are people struggling? Or has the government completely taken care of everything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

But climate change is a HOAX. Trump said it himself. Drill baby drill?

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

Is this an earnest question? I can't tell

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I assumed satire. Every time someone writes "Or has the government completely taken care of everything?" and it's the gov't of the USA that they refer to, the answer is a definite no. So..