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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 overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (5 children)

We're like a bunch of ignorant children.

We set fire to the living room because we did something stupid. Now we're in the kitchen and won't tell our parents about the fire and even try to distract them from going into the living room to avoid dealing with the problem. We'll ignore it as long as possible.

We won't realize how big of a problem it is until the whole house burns down.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"GOOD GOD WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE?!"

"Aurora Borealis."

"Seymour! The house is on fire!"

"No, mother, that's just the northern lights."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Lol ..... that's how I will face the end too .... just laughing at how idiotically stupid we all were to let this happen.

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