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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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These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change (www.space.com)
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[–] Mojojojo1993 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or. Crazy concept. We actually stop buying plastic. Stop burning fossil fuels. You know just general common sense kinda stuff.

No, no we wont allow our way of life to be impacted at all. Require the planet to be destroyed so we can drive luxury SUVs to pickup our plastic coating everything. Complain on our brand new smartphone sitting watching the newest tv, in our climate controlled room with every single light on in the house garden basement roof

Woe is me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OR! How about we blot out the sky?

[–] Mojojojo1993 9 points 6 months ago

It's a good idea. Could ground up all the poor's and make a worldwide sun umbrella. Solved.