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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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2023: Another year of records and devastation in the climate crisis (english.elpais.com)
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‘We are living through climate collapse in real time,’ said U.N. Secretary-General António Gutérres in a message released to coincide with the presentation of the WMO’s interim report on the state of the climate ahead of COP28

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, don't worry!

Right now, somewhere, in a repressive state without freedom of speech and limited rights to protest, some of the richest fossil fuel company owners and oil sheikhs meet with the world leaders, well - except USA and China, the world's biggest polluters - to work on a solution and find out how ~~they can still sell their oil~~ to trick the public.