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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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A year of record global heat has pushed Earth closer to dangerous threshold (wapo.st)
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He repeated past calls for countries to stop investing in new coal power generation, and for developed countries to increase investment in clean energy and extreme weather adaptation, especially in poorer countries that have done the least to contribute to climate change and are feeling some of its worst effects.

And Guterres is now demanding all countries ban advertising from fossil fuel companies, and media and tech companies stop taking those companies’ ad dollars.

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[–] winety 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

we're all going to die

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or...we could actually push politicians to do more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They’re not going, we need to do so much more then push but many of us are too scared (which i understand) or are subservient to the system that perpetuates those that are leading the climate crisis.