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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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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How is she relevant to young voters. Isn't she like 100?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

She is old, but took on climate activism a few years ago. I'm happy to have as many allies as possible here

She's 86, and apparently still acting.

She starred on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie (which ended in 2022), was a contestant in the 2020 edition of "Who wants to be a millionare?", and has a lot of film credits in recent movies such as "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken" , "Book Club: The Next Chapter" , and "This Is Me... Now: A Love Story"

So if the question is about recognizability - she's active enough that many of those on the younger side would indeed recognize her. As for relatability - well, I'll let someone else answer that.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Kids love that Barbarella.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

My thoughts exactly. She's meaning well but she should be pushing young voices to speak on her behalf at this point.