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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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Pierre Friedlingstein: There are no “magical climate solutions” | Nothing matters more than ending fossil fuel consumption, says one of the world's leading climate scientists. (www.newstatesman.com)
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Bar chart of 2022 CO2 emissions. Land use: 3.9 gigatonnes. Fossil fuels 37.5 gigatonnes

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[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like we're at a point where talking about climate is pretty much useless, as nothing ever radical is going to be done even if the worlds leading scientists start talking about it non-stop, assuming nothing changes in how governments/society functions.

For anything to happen, the left has to wake up worldwide and organize some worldwide radical effort rather than what's happening right now, with climate change talk brushed aside or having some exploitable program that barely does anything.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing will ever be done

[–] CubbyTustard@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh stuff is definitely being done, like building new fossil fuel export hubs!. There's a nice little loophole where exports aren't counted as emissions so we are going to massively increase that while trying to pretend we are cutting down ourselves. profit is the only thing that matters to those in power.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

But if anyone tries to block or obstruct those hubs and pipelines taking vast quantities of gas and oil out of the country than you can bet the CEO will be on Fox News within the hour to explain how this is the left driving up the price of gas for hard working americans.