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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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Scientists are alarmed by signs of collapse in Earth's natural carbon sinks (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

It makes me wonder, just what are the rich old geezer and young rich hustlers going to do when the planet becomes uninhabitable due to this? Go to space? There's no where to go and our technology is only good enough to get to the Moon and Mars. But there's no where to really live that's like Earth and the exoplanets we discovered, are beyond our reach.

So I am under the belief that these climate destroying rich people, just want to ruin things at the expense and survival of others.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago

No matter how bad it gets, the moon and mars will never be more inhabitable than earth

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago

They will try to buy their way out of it. On an individual level. Water shortage, they'll pay more for water. They'll pay top dollar to keep the a/c on, etc. when no amount of money will help and they didn't plan ahead with Zuckerberg-style bunkers, they'll just die like the rest of us.

And the billionaires will possibly be killed in their expensive bunkers, if the Fallout series taught us anything.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 19 points 11 hours ago

They just don't believe the earth can be uninhabitable, and they think they can hide inside their home all day with AC on. They just don't care, most people i met don't anyway. It's crazy.