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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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Forget about your carbon footprint. Try 'climatemaxxing.'. (grist.org)
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Climate action is a guilt trip. Let’s make it aspirational instead.

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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

Climaxing? I already do that

[–] Beastimus@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago

I kinda love this framing actually. Can we also do sustainmaxxing, consumptionminning (I couldn't think of a good max version), and ethicsmaxxing?

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

That's one hell of a title.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 3 days ago

I mean I don't care about terminology. I just need something to describe doing something because its seems to be better for biosphere of the planet.