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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 Cranky Uncle Game: A Way to Logic-Check Misinformation about Climate Change (skepticalinquirer.org)
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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At this point, it’s important that the deconstructed argument is a faithful rendition of the original claim. You don’t want to construct a straw man that is a weakened version of the original claim, making it easier to debunk. Instead, you want to build a “steel man” version of the original claim—as strong an argument as possible.

Not that I disagree, but this is why the lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Don’t feed the trolls. This is part of the old internet knowledge that was lost.

Engaging bad faith actors does nothing but draw attention. If you have to engage, mock them. Never, ever treat them like they are serous and have a legitimate position that requires a counter argument.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Source looks good :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptical_Inquirer
~~(so I will read and will come back ...)~~

Long & nice read ... see also : crankyuncle.com

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 3 points 2 days ago

I missed that the link was on skeptical inquirer. The cranky uncle people are at https://skepticalscience.com/

They are both pretty good, but the skeptical science page was the actual one I was meaning to refer to.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 4 points 2 days ago

That source is super for climate science. They’ve been my go to for ages and they keep up on the misinformation claims and thoroughly refute them clearly and completely.