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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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[–] neanderthal 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe we should start astroturfing right wing political events? When they start spouting nonsense about the climate, boo them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's harder than you might think; most of them aren't open to the public, or you have to make a campaign contribution.

It's pretty typical for an event held in, say, a factory, to use an audience of ringers instead of people who work there.