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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] 6 points 1 year ago

This is completely normal and nothing to worry about. Please return to your regularly scheduled serfdom and absolutely do not question the decisions and policies that have led to this situation.

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

It's been interesting seeing the reactions to the air quality alerts in my area's local social media (Facebook groups, Nextdoor, etc). There is a sizable amount of people talking about how the air quality alerts are there to make us scared so we can be controlled. It's really amazing how this is right in our face but there are still people who want to deny that it's a problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Propaganda does that to people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hang on there.