this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
145 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

6237 readers
243 users here now

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.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
145
Climate Change Is Fueling a Mental Health Crisis Among Adolescents (www.discovermagazine.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

people who’ve had their future ripped away from them, thrown out in the street, and repeatedly run over

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, this started with millennials. We've known we're fucked for many years now. But we didn't grow up with it the same way that these kids did. We thought we had a future for a little while.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I'm from 1980. I'm glad I don't have children. I hope I can avoid the water wars, but I'm not sure I'll choose to stay around long enough to see Hayley's Comet again. I don't think the collapse of global society (including, but not limited to the Internet) is eminent, but it does seem damn-near unavoidable: We need to act globally soon, and convincing/replacing current global leadership seems like it will take too long.