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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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The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just as if there were politicians, who would before an election say they'd tackle a problem to get more popular, while actually not working on solutions.

[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

The climate action movement is burning out due to the demands of the climate pathways which are not being met. All the years of campaigning needed constant turnover, because it is and was such a high energy protest - very rarely are such extreme consequences of not acting proven.

It doesn't help that each and every political fraction wants to influence the climate action movement: revolutionists and reformists, companies and anticapitalists, religions and feminists, fascists and antifascists, parties and autonomists etc... Some of them might have a legitimate claim on the attention economy, but the future of all of these struggles literally necessitate climate action in this decade.

Tabloids are kind of in league with the enemy who is very skilled and experienced (e.g. tobacco, FCKW, lead, asbestos) at casting doubt, delay and criminalisation, which is yet another hurdle.