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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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Despite clear signals that Hurricane Idalia was influenced by climate change, less than 2% of US TV news coverage made the link (www.mediamatters.org)
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[–] Burn_The_Right 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even the media on the left is scared of conservatives. It's time to speak openly about important issues and also about what a threat to mankind conservatism is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Because "news" is all compromised by people with agendas.

[–] zepheriths 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What difference would it make to say it? Everyone that cares already knows. Plus, even if emissions stopped today, hurricanes will continue to be bad for decades. So no point in saying the same thing that everyone knows and will still be bad even if it is fixed for the rest of their life. Just explaining it pragmaticly

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

Most people don't actually know that level of detail about how fossil-fuel-induced warming affects temperature. Having that be part of the public discourse makes it easier to move off fossil fuels

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why the fossil corporations spend billions to suppress that information

[–] zepheriths 3 points 1 year ago

I think everyone would be a lot happier if it was fossil companies with billions of dollars not fossil fuel companies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think keeping it in people's minds is useful. Otherwise it's easy to get wrapped up in your day to day life. I've found that climate stories are often under reported here or categorised as another issue.

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

I had a colleague once who didn't believe in Climate Change and considered it propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The physics of it don't really care if you believe or not. Adding greenhouse gases warms the world just the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This should help explain why.