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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 target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

40-60% of humans are too fucking stupid to understand any kind of attenuated causality. This was clearly demonstrated during covid by their inability to quarantine and wear masks in the face of deadly disease. If it is not don't stick your dick in a hornets nest painful, they cannot comprehend that their actions have consequences.

Unless the rest of us are willing to exterminate them, I don't know anyway that we'll ever make climate targets. We have failed badly at every attempt so far. Because the extermination option is politically impossible, I expect the worst consequences of climate change to be inevitable.

Education resistant humans are insurmountable.