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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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[–] Hank@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, news from India that don't suck?

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better late than never I guess. At least they'll understand why they're living in a dystopian hellscape by the time they graduate.

[–] deviant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Of they are smart enough to get into one of these colleges, pretty sure they do and depending on the teir of the college they'll learn to live with it or move out

[–] thbb@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The same type of program is being introduced at European universities.

In my doctoral school, this is a five hours course, presented as a MOOC. Not too sure it really is useful.

The educated public generally feels concerned about the subject, and such a generic course feels boring to its intended audience.

[–] monke@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Someone's salty

[–] v2vhD7HK@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

There's a course that's been required for engineering degrees at my university for some years about sustainable development, in which they even mention collapse.

Of course almost nobody gives a fuck or even go to class.