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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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‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Except it isn't even a few mad scientists this time

It's a good 99% of scientists

[–] oDDmON@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Yet the media treat the other 1% with at least as much deference.

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And like 75%+ of humans.