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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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Reminder that there's no "it's too late, its over" for climate change (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] Mog_fanatic 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

While I believe this is absolutely true, there is also a very real point we have seen in virtually all of our studies where we're fucked pretty much no matter what. It's just a matter of how fucked at a certain point. But I guess that's the sentiment being expressed here, just much more gently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

No climate path is "pure", but every business-as-usual path is more evil than the one with less emissions.