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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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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah no shit. we owe them better than this. it's time we step up and fix the world

[–] 1984@lemmy.today -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From our mobile phones? The truth is there is very little most of us can do.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll take [action for slim chance of success] over [inaction for guaranteed failure] every time.

[–] mycelium@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

This is exactly an argument Kohei Saito makes in his book Degrowth - even if we know the odds are slim, do we not have a moral imperative to try while we still can?