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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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I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia and other nations, (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

It’s insane that humans still think about how to maximise profit while our environment is destroyed exactly because of that profit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

We know. I just wish there was more that I could do about that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Anybody who denies climate change will just say its "the cycle" of the planet.

The only way to make huge climate changes is to make it massively profitable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fossil Fuel Stakeholders:

1965: "That didn't happen."

1985: "And if it did, it wasn't that bad."

1995: "And if it was, that's not a big deal."

2005: "And if it is, that's not my fault."

2015: "And if it was, I didn't mean it."

2025: "And if I did, you deserved it."