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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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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

These vapes been around for 20+ years, they have just become trendier now, maybe because they got smaller

[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We knew about the environment and recycling 20 years ago…

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Only thing that changed is production started of single use, China is pumping these things out and everyone is eating them up as grey/black market imports

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

That's what I said below