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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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Pew Research Center polling finds a majority of US adults view global warming as a significant problem, though with a sharp partisan divide.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

About 20% of Republicans said humanity causes climate change, across all educational levels.

Republicans are idiots, across all education levels.

[–] SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

As always, Republicans 30+ years behind on recognizing problems.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

That's rich

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a funny way to say "...doubt America and the West ...".

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The rest of the world basically does not exist in the US press so that's what people think about

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No question about other countries' actions was asked, answered or even mentioned in the article. I stand by my assertion that the headline was misleading garbage and should have been called-out in the post.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

yeah. especially our own.