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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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Scientists are alarmed by signs of collapse in Earth's natural carbon sinks (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

You're asking a huge question. But to break it down, yes, thousands of studies exist, many of them paid for by the very companies doing the chemical dumping, deforestation, and natural resource pillaging.

Here's the paper they reference in the article itself: https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2024/nrs_2024_pan_001.pdf

All of this human activity, for the purposes of energy generation, agriculture, gasoline, and plastics for every day living affects the Earth and its interconnected systems. Destroying forests for wood or other resources means there are fewer carbon sinks on Earth to absorb all of the carbon we create while destroying the Earth. It's a self-perpetuating crisis. The impact comes from humans and our greed for more money.