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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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More and more scientists say climate change an emergency (www.theclimatebrink.com)
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[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, none of that is going to happen, thankfully.

It’s just going to result in more powerful storms and extreme weather spread throughout the planet.

Lots of life will die off but it will be absolutely nothing compared to the shit our planet has seen in the past and recovered from.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the end, we're killing ourselves and the things we are familiar with. The things that make Earth, to us. I hope the squids have a better run than we did.

[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of good people working against it as well.