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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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One Simple Change to Reduce Your Climate Impact? Swap Out Beef (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, those are the human beings that I assumed the person I replied to was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Billionaires arent human tho. They rejected their humanity long ago.
They can reclaim it, but I doubt they will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean if you want to live in made-up fantasyland in your head, you can think stuff like that, but in reality they are certainly human beings made of meat and bones. Unless you possess some information about them transferring their consciousness into robot bodies that I haven't heard of yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I was joking (and failing at it, ovs) about the fact that the actions of billionaires puts them closer to parasites than humans.