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[-] BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

i get it. even if your nation meets a net-zero goal, most other nations will not, and the warming will continue.

preparing for the likely outcome seems like a reasonable action

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

You need both adaptation and cutting emissions to zero at this point: it's possible to do enough damage that adaptation isn't really possible

[-] BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

fair point.

every nation should still do everything it can to cut emissions

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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I'm tired and rambling. Don't mind me.

this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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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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