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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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The UN Issued a Dire Climate Change Warning. It's Worse Than They Hoped (themessenger.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've given up. The people in power have the responsibility to fix this. They all took on that responsibility when they took the title. Not my problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Then work on changing the people in power if you're in a part of the world where that's possible, and work on making the changes that need to happen part of how you make a living no matter where you are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

And how are you supposed to do that? You can vote, but that is just one person. Look at the election results & polls of green parties & politicians who want to do something. No one actually wants that, otherwise they'd be voting differently. Everyone loves to cry about the big corporations or the bad politicians but none of them want to do anything themselves or be in any way shape or form affected by required measures that are needed to reduce emissions. Because yes, at this stage it will cost us, all of us, and it will just get more and more expensive to fix with each passing year - until there's nothing possible to fix anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Voting is a start.

You can also:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, been there done that. Evidently none of those things actually help. It's a drop in the ocean. Again, the majority of people does not care, or rather the contrary, gets angry at those who do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Each of us is a drop, but our drops together are the ocean. If you don't want to get involved, I can't make you, but don't discourage others if you want to stick around.