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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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‘Worst-Case’ Disaster for Antarctic Ice Looks Less Likely, Study Finds | Still expected to all melt; just more slowly (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a 90s movie starring Burce Willis and Richard Gere called The Jackal, where Willis is playing the titular Jackal, a ruthless assassin on a mission to kill someone with a robot minigun in a robot minivan. Or something.

But there's a scene where the Jackal has shot one of the agents in the liver, and he explains to her that she's going to die, but if she applies pressure to the wound to slow the bleeding, she will live long enough to deliver a message to the main character.

I'm picturing Willis as the Jackal reading that headline.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

But what if we make a better world for no reason?

We should probably just keep drilling