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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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Is news really activism? Will this place be the change u wanna cause? (slrpnk.net)
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Yeah I get it, everything fucking sucks and sometimes we get a win. I've been here for 30 minutes tops and I can't remember half of the headlines I've read, can you? There's like no engagement on any of the posts here and there's probably a dozen aggregators that post the same shit you're looking at.

Shit that was written to nickel and dime you somehow, or lower down the food chain in an academic format for people actually paid to solve problems.

Leave the articles to the climate scientists and policy makers: This instance needs a place for people who get shit done, people who wanna change themselves and their immediate communities. We don't have enough of that, anywhere.

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

The news here is not just negative, people have posted articles showing how things are NOT hopeless, like about how surprisingly effective the Inflation Reduction Act is, or how states and countries are scaling up solar power, how cheap alternative energies are continually becoming, etc.

I don't go to traditional news sites, watch TV, or use any other social media, Lemmy has become how I stay slightly abreast of what's happing, and it works well as a Reddit replacement in that regard.

I also think it's a good place to share ideas, some of the articles posted from Lowtech Magazine were absolutely wonderful.

Is it a good place to organize? No. But it's a nice place to discuss things, find cool stuff, and be informed of global happenings.