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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why?

And I don’t mean this as a rhetorical question. Can anyone please actually explain to me in a nuanced way why the fuck people want to go out of their way to pretend something very real doesn’t exist at all?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The marketing money comes from the a couple of billionaires who made their money in fracking.

Once you get that, you infiltrate a bunch of social trust networks, and get the people who are trusted by a lot of people to lie. Some will do it for approval, some for money. Then you push a bunch of petromasculinity to get people to think that it's a core part of their identity, so they'll fight tooth and nail to keep on burning stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks. That link reads like an unbelievable plot in a dystopian story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Something something both sides is a continuation of teaching creation as an alternate to science from the late 90s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

big oil is trying to groom our children into selling their futures