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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.

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

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

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Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was (grist.org) 9 Midnight 156 »
Trump’s U-Turns to Set Back US Carbon-Cutting by a Decade | Overturning major policies will bring additional emissions of about 1 gigaton by 2040. (www.bloomberg.com) 1 silence7 73 »
Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years (apnews.com) 0 floofloof 124 »
US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations (www.bloomberg.com) 4 silence7 94 »
US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 (techcrunch.com) 4 floofloof 68 »
US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis | Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings (www.theguardian.com) 3 silence7 191 »
US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions (www.thechemicalengineer.com) 8 inari 171 »
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record | More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news (www.theclimatebrink.com) 1 silence7 100 »
Trump’s EPA reportedly ⁠poised to axe carbon pollution rules for power plants (www.theguardian.com) 5 silence7 63 »
Why Won’t the Media Say “Climate Change”? Climate coverage has been dropping even as extreme climate-supercharged weather gets worse (www.sierraclub.org) 14 silence7 212 »
Some coastal towns in North Carolina now flood up to 100 days a year | Sea level rise worsens flooding, cutting people off from work, school, and services. (yaleclimateconnections.org) 6 silence7 64 »
Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech (naomiklein.substack.com) 0 silence7 32 »
As the Fight for a Key Climate Goal Falters, Some Begin a Fight for Survival (www.nytimes.com) 0 silence7 13 »
US EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants (www.bloomberg.com) 1 silence7 57 »
Ocean temperatures in recent years (video) (mastodon.nzoss.nz) 35 Rimu 234 »
Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running (www.nytimes.com) 0 silence7 66 »
Take climate action to win votes, UN executive tells EU politicians (www.euronews.com) 0 uszo165 29 »
Wildfires, permafrost thaw in Canada causing even more climate change, new study shows (www.cbc.ca) 0 floofloof 45 »
Why ‘Clean Is Cheap, Cheap Is Clean’ Isn’t Breaking Through | New polling by Heatmap and Embold Research shows where one of climate advocates’ favorite arguments for renewables is falling short. (heatmap.news) 4 silence7 54 »
Court Rejects Trump Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open (news.bloomberglaw.com) 2 silence7 55 »
Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy (www.carbonbrief.org) 2 silence7 36 »
Building codes are holding back low-carbon concrete. A new study shows why. (www.anthropocenemagazine.org) 5 silence7 75 »
The Iran War Is Pushing Global Coal Use to Record Highs (www.nytimes.com) 6 silence7 69 »
US EPA Removes Online Scope 3 Emissions Guidance for Companies (www.bloomberg.com) 0 silence7 9 »
How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit | Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity. (insideclimatenews.org) 0 silence7 38 »
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About this forum

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.

1 members · 2292 topics · 7786 posts
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