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@[email protected]M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Climate-changing human activity could lead to 1 billion deaths over the next century, according to new study

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Climate-changing human activity could lead to 1 billion deaths over the next century, according to new study

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@[email protected]M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, University of Western Ontario's Joshua Pearce says it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century.
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    Imagine being 10 years younger… Smh

    • sour
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      am teenager ._.

    • Alto
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      Bit younger than that but hi. There’s a reason I’m not having kids

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        Because that worked so well in the movie Idiocracy.

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          Sorry, not bringing some poor bastards into a world that’s only going to get worse.

          And are you actually basing the decisions you make on a movie?

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            A scary amount of people do

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          “But kids have electrolytes…”

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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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