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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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Climate Is Now a US Culture War Issue (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, An Inconvenient Truth came out 17 years ago and it was already an old debate then.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep ... I feel it's one of those things that people should really consider to recalibrate how the feel about the issue ...

It's an old and well known problem on which the world has been dragging its heels for ages. That the world has taken so long to do anything substantial, and danced around what needs to be done for so long will be a really bad look from the future looking back.

Like, think Germans during the Nazi holocaust and the question of whether any of them did enough or the right thing.

Think grand-children asking you what you did and why you didn't do more. What excuse did you have when all the information was easy to get?

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think grand-children asking you what you did and why you didn’t do more. What excuse did you have when all the information was easy to get?

in my case, I don't have the energy or funds to effectively resist. I want to do more but can't

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry to hear ... and I hope you're doing ok! Which I say with empathy/understanding BTW (I too wish I could do more).