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temperature timeline
(imgs.xkcd.com)
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
IKR? If only we had some way of capturing photographic evidence from satellites and aerial photography that would let us map the advance and retreat of glaciers around the world. That would be really useful technology in ensuring that facts could be used when discussing this important issue.
Oh well, I guess it's too technical to ask for such things after all. Maybe Elon Musk can do something about it in the next decade.
Maybe we could also survey the underside of the ice caps at the same time, while we're at it? Oh, we're alrrady doing that and it's horrible? Alright.