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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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Mosquitoes are becoming a bigger threat, thanks to climate change. How can the U.S. keep them under control? (news.yahoo.com)
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[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

End car dependency. Replace fossil fuel power plants as fast as possible. Build electric HSR and ban passenger flights under a certain distance. Tax beef. Stop growing corn in Iowa for ethanol and grow food instead. Tax companies that require workers that can WFH to come in to an office. Tax credits for replacing methane or propane appliances or HVAC with electric. That's just to start.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good stuff, but I'm not seeing the link to mosquitos

[–] Lalaz4@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the cause of the mosquito rise is climate change, then the answer is to address the cause of the issue.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 year ago

Problem is that it's the warmer temperature, not "change" per se. And we can't really bring it back down.

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