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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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Does the way we talk about the climate crisis numb people with fear, rather than energising them? | Phrases such as ‘green economy’ turn voters [UK] off, it seems (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I think it's exactly the opposite. I don't think people are nearly as fearful enough or there would actually be action. We keep thinking we can capitalism our way out of this, but it's never going to work.

I want to start telling people that this is a problem now when we need to do something right now as if our hair is on fire.

Because it is.