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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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For context, approximately all the change we've seen in recent decades is due to human actions, of which the biggest one is burning fossil fuels:

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[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

Climate Town did a video about this: The Brainwashing Of America's Children

[–] blazera@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

“We could turn the lights off and turn off the air-conditioning in here. It’d be 110 degrees, and we’d be sitting in the dark,”

just wanted to point out the irony in the oil rep complaining about it being too hot.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

idk "partly responsible" is still responsible, no?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

It's typically used as a way to say "human impact has been tiny" even though it's responsible for approximately all of the observed warming