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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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The planet is warming so fast, it could cross a key climate limit [1.5°C above the late 1800s] in 2024 (wapo.st)
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New research shows the planet on track to top a warming benchmark next year. Many at COP28 remain hopeful the world can avoid that threshold.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I am terrified.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Here is where the article tells us what to expect probably from next year forward:

A surge of global temperatures that began this summer provided an initial picture of how a planet 1.5 degrees hotter will look: Unprecedented heat at the limits of human survival. Antarctic sea ice astonishingly far below its record minimum. Devastating floods, fires and other weather extremes that have been linked to climate change.

This is where we stand:

The team of scientists projected that the temperature of the planet could consistently exceed the 1.5C threshold within seven years if emission levels hold.

A large part of earth's population is in for a rough ride. To put it mildly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm just living life now. Born too late too make a change. Ofcourse a certain group of people may need to be held accountable, but they won't. We, the people, will. Nothing will change. I'm so depressed reading this. I wanted kids. I'm afraid to give them life knowing what disasters may come. I wanted to become a grandfather one day, if lucky enough. Yet all I do is feel like I won't even make a grandfatherly age.

Older family members think I'm crazy for believing we're facing a disaster. They say things like: "every generation has its disaster story". Maybe they know, but can't comprehend what's happening. It's this same process of thinking " it's not that bad" that got us here in just a few hundred years. Yet still here we are. Facing possibly the end of life as we've known it.

Why do we not follow the scientists in their studies instead of politicians blaming everyone and everything BUT the ones who are accountable?

Am I overthinking this, while sitting on a toilet...?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I hope the next apex species takes better care of it than we did. We should start carving warnings into cave walls.