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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

The Climate Charts Are Not Okay

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The Climate Charts Are Not Okay

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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  • Jimmybander@champserver.net
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    I don’t want this to happen to us, but by golly it is. My two children are going to be living further North I guess. We gotta get away from the heat a bit.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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      We gotta get away from the heat a bit.

      That’s not really the concern here, unless you’re living in India, the middle East, or Africa, or whatever. There’s a lot worse consequences coming for us than a bit of heat around equator regions.

  • jadero@slrpnk.net
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    An absolutely fantastic bit of writing. My favourite sentence:

    The effort to slow climate change is in many ways an attempt to make the charts agree again, make them speak to each other in once-familiar languages.

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    https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country/

    Nothing is changing any time soon

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      It’s likely to actually.

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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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