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@[email protected]M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected]English • 8 days ago

Is This the Year We Doom Civilization? We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change

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Is This the Year We Doom Civilization? We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change

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@[email protected]M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected]English • 8 days ago
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We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change

For context, this is what the Republicans in Congress are throwing away:

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    There are many reasons to dread the future. An opportunity to watch the destruction of Florida is not one of them.

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      Wouldn’t it, essentially, become a giant sand bank of sorts?

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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:

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