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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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It’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the climate (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is a very interesting topic that would require a lot of discussions

In my opinion, we (obviously) need both BUT the messages leveraging fear will still be more spread thanks to algorithms.

So the issue here is more like “how do we reach the people that need more positive messages” rather than “we need more positive messages”

In the end, a lot of people just can’t get out of their own hamster wheel unless hard helped offline by people close to them.

It’s also true that we don’t need masses to react, just enough people… So well, as I said, it’s food for thought that requires discussions and actions, there is no end synthesis to this comment of mine :)