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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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Climate Change Is Crisis for Entire Planet, Deputy Secretary Says (www.defense.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Duh, but Russia and China appear to be betting it will benefit them and you can't convince them otherwise.

[–] rockSlayer 5 points 2 months ago

Same with the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China has mythology about dynasties causing natural disasters through bad policies that disrupt the environment, and Pooh bear is changing his tone since the crazy series of natural disasters China has been having... They got a lot of flak for mishandling them, and, since finding out their military is in no shape to invade Taiwan, they're trying to show they can change before they get ousted

Russia was an economy the size of Mexico, before the latest sanctions hit (and we started investing in Mexican production to get away from China). They might be right - they're pretty far north, and they'd probably benefit from global upheaval - they have much less to lose, especially the regime (which is on very shaky footing due to Ukraine)

2024 has been a hell of a year. Russia is in no place to care about the long term, and the CCP could fall if they don't reform by the people's demands... The world is changing

We need to prepare, the adversaries have turned out to be toothless, but climate change is already here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

CCP is in for real problems population wise. You never want to have 2x as many retired people as you have working and they're basically heading for that.

[–] Sylvartas 2 points 2 months ago

If any country stands to benefit from global warming it's probably Russia tbh. China, I really doubt it though.