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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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One in 11 people went hungry last year. Climate change is a big reason why. (grist.org)
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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Continuing to eat animals does create a pretty big conflict of interest tho, it's a lot harder to be motivated to stop animal agriculture while you still use it. (Same can be said of fossil fuels, although outside the maga crowd it's less common for people to have such strong emotional attachments to them, and the alternatives are much less controversial. It's also a lot more feasible to stop eating animal products now than it is to stop using fossil fuels now)