this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
45 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

7308 readers
260 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
45
As Temperatures Rise, So Does Sugar Consumption (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 3 days ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Archived copies of the article:

The paper is here and open-access.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So use sugar alternatives.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The issue is that some alternatives are worse than the thing they are replacing, and alternatives are also not as "mainstream" and often more expensive. And if you're buying a drink you're getting whatever is in the mass produced beverage, unless you're going to spend the time to label shop and are prepared to leave empty handed.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

I've found that True Lemon/Orange/Lime/Grapefruit packets combined with Nutrisweet (saccharine) tablets is cheaper than store bought drinks, have no health downsides, and taste better since I can dial-in the sweetness to be less sweet than store bought drinks.

That also works for tea purchased in bulk, which can be re-brewed (even cold) multiple times from the same batch to save money.