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[-] RockyBockySocky@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

If only this was an actual possibility..

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Right? The slow end was even more possible and that didn’t happen…

[-] Ni@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I think we all know rapid change is possible if the right motivators are there. Not sure how you get people and legislators to make the rapid change we need.

A few things we can do as individuals is fly less, eat less meat, drive less (where possible).

On a larger scale, write to your representatives, and vote for people who actually put climate change at the forefront of their agenda. It's now time for us all to be really pushy.

[-] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

We need to vote for people who will address climate issues. Mitigation and adaptation.

[-] Xeelee@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

But what if those people won't let us discriminate against the gays? Checkmate leftists!

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People who will adress climate issues don't receive millions in donations for their political campaigns.

[-] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Right, and that makes voting for them much more important.

[-] HandOfDoom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree. However, if we are to depend on a system owned by our enemies, we are bound to fail.

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Possible yes. But is it likely?

[-] beetsnuami@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

As the article says: The earth's temperature is going to increase, no matter what we do — because the earth is not in equilibrium currently. The oceans will continue to warm up, even if we stop all emissions of CO2 right now. Which is not to say that action is meaningless. But there is such a thing as being too late.

[-] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

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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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