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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:

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A hotter planet is pushing older adults beyond the human body’s limits | As the planet warms and the population ages, millions of older adults could face heat their bodies can no longer tolerate. (www.mercurynews.com)

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[–] CarpalTunnelButt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Planting more trees is one of the easier things you can do to cool your surroundings.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Very much so! And for those curious, there's more techniques to prepare for global warming over at !disasterresponse@slrpnk.net.

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