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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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Likely culprit found for recent gray whale die-off: declines in sea ice cover that lead to a dearth of the crustaceans that gray whales love to eat. (www.oregonlive.com)
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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's everywhere on earth, people carry on about demographic replacement but we should be encouraging smaller populations. Human beings are just so egocentric that the thought of not reproducing is too crazy to entertain.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Not particularly. People who see that their kids are likely to live to adulthood and that they don't need a large family to live well tend to have only 1-2 kids. You see that in Japan, the US and western Europe

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

in many countries, sub-replacement birth rates have accidentally happened