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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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All students at India’s universities will have to study subjects such as environmental education and climate change in order to graduate, starting from the about-to-begin 2023 to 2024 academic year (www.universityworldnews.com)
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[–] Hank@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh, news from India that don't suck?

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better late than never I guess. At least they'll understand why they're living in a dystopian hellscape by the time they graduate.

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

Of they are smart enough to get into one of these colleges, pretty sure they do and depending on the teir of the college they'll learn to live with it or move out