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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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[โ€“] carbonprop@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Tell that to the premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith. She thinks the lights will go out.

[โ€“] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If possible. Governments should le be exiled and new systems out in place.

Electricity shouldn't be for profit and should look to set up solar panel plants that are distributed to all households, ever single roof should be mandated to have cells unless there's a good reason not to. Look into putting turbines in rivers and using bio power from unprocessable food stuffs.

Have communities set up community solar for homes that can't have solar and systems In place to move supply when demand changes. Using a system of batteries and cars as the system increases.

More money for poorer families would alleviate health problems. Less pollution would do similar