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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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[–] Metaright@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Surreal Iran W. If only the United States followed suit with this.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The US is big enough that the whole country doesn't experience extreme heat at the same time. Could make sense on a regional basis

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

States should definitely be doing it when needed.

[–] Metaright@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

That is a fair point. But, on the other hand... More holidays for everyone would also be great!

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Texas would probably say it's too big to do statewide holidays and then tell cities it's illegal to have those holidays..

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nah sorry our politicians are too busy banning mandated heat breaks

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

I remember having some days of school either cut short or cut completely while living in NJ during the early 00s. Rare, but depressingly beneficial