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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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[–] mydude@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

" 'The Pentagon is a larger polluter than 140 countries combined’ — Speaker Pelosi and U.S. delegates at COP26 responded to a question on how the military contributes to the climate crisis." Please stop blaming your neighbor for eating food. Divide and conquer is the oldest strategy there is. Stop falling for it...

[–] htrayl@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agriculture accounts for 20% of the global emissions. Meat is the vast majority of that. It's not divide and conquer, it is a reality (and the military contributes a lot to that as well, as they very much promote meat consumption).

[–] mydude@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

I know climate change is real, but I hope you know that the ruling elite of WEF, will spin this so you cut your emission while they continue their private jet setting lives. While "You will eat ze bugz" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TaSZ_DDQjcM

[–] psud@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

In what country? In the US it's 10%