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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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Greenhouse gases soared to another record and there’s ‘no end in sight’ (wapo.st)
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[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is the weakest, most watered down non-objective ever. I pity anyone forced to live on the planet we are currently leaving behind. It would be more merciful to potential future life to just give up, stop procreating and stop acting like we give a shit.
The human race is a failure. Call the experiment concluded. We lost. And, we did it to ourselves. Pathetic.

(Ideally, we'd just turn everything off now and quietly go extinct without doing further damage, to be honest. We know we're going to fail, yet we continue to pull every other species in along with us. But, we're not even decent enough to do that.)