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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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[–] darthelmet 38 points 3 days ago (19 children)

I wish people wouldn't just resign as a protest. Stay around and do your job terribly. Don't make it easy for them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

The problem is that when you have a direct order to commit a crime, the choice is:

  • resign
  • be fired and escorted out a few minutes later
  • do the crime

Being fired is a few minutes later isn't preferable to resigning, though a few people have.

Stick around and sabotage is something you can do when you're not directly ordered to do something criminal.

[–] einlander 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also being fired puts all your benefits at risk. Might as well resign and keep your pension then be fired "for cause" and potentially lose it.

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

What benefits?

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

I guess e.g. pension entitlements.

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