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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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Climate Science Is under Attack in Classrooms (www.scientificamerican.com)
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And to be clear: the evidence that human fossil fuel burning and other greenhouse gas emissions caused the warming is unequivocal

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a party that’s so hell-bent on destroying the education system, they sure have an interest in what’s being taught.

It’s almost as if they’re transparently disingenuous because they know their voting base is too fucking stupid and easily distracted to notice.

[–] sdoorex@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

That’s the secret. They don’t want to destroy the education system, just remove its ability to teach critical thought and remove anything negative to their own ideology.

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

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