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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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Iowa could remove mentions of climate change from education standards (www.kcrg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

After the last few years in particular, I'm at peace with giving the corvids and raccoons their chance. We should probably go extinct, for the good of the planet. I just hope it isn't too painful.

[–] DarkFuture 2 points 1 day ago

We should probably go extinct, for the good of the planet.

For the good of the universe. Humanity is a cancer. We'd spread to other parts of our galaxy and consume the planets there as well. Guaranteed to go to war with any other sentient beings we come across. It's our nature. Hell, it might be the nature of all sentient beings.

I just hope it isn’t too painful.

It'll probably be slow, with a generally declining quality of life for a long, long time. I almost just want the nukes to drop so it happens fast.

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

I agree. All we can do now is carve what wisdom we have into rocks for the next apex species. I hope they fare better.