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.
“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
According to Republicans and companies like Exxon, anything that may or may not be happening cannot be conclusively tied to human activity. Nothing to see here!
It's just volcanoes!! /s
volcanoes do affect the climate.
usually they actually cause cooling though. Just dont tell the assholes cause they'll start talking about nuking volcanoes instead of, you know, stopping use of dino juice.