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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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Denial is over. Climate change is happening. But why do we still act like it's not? (theconversation.com)
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[–] Sordid@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The tragedy of the commons. When a resource that's owned by everyone and no-one is disappearing due to overuse, refraining from using it just leaves more to those who don't refrain. The incentive is to intensify its use to get the most out of it while there's still anything left to get. In other words there's no hope, so we might as well enjoy what time we have left.

[–] MenKlash@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

In other words there’s no hope

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