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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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Even if COP28 fails, it has changed the conversation on fossil fuels | Even having discussions on an end to the main cause of global warming is huge progress, say campaigners and researchers (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] Caradoc879 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i'd just assumed it was short for "Cope, cause we'll all be fucked by 2028"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

How bad it gets is (quite literally) a matter of degree, not one of fucked/not fucked.

[–] Ensign_Crab 4 points 11 months ago

"We did nothing, and here's why that's plenty. You should be thanking us."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Time for a new tank of copium.