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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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Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace. (wapo.st)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You dropped your /S ;)

I know where you are comming from, however. But the thing is, not doing that isn't helping any either. And one thing that needs to be said, which isn't reported on nearly as much as it should, the EU green deal, fit for 55, while it still isn't enough, is legislation which has passed, which has teeth and which will keep EU working to reduce carbon emissions. And will keep us running as fast as we can to be able to make the cut offs and deadlines.

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

That's great news! Unfortunately I'm stuck in the US. Best we can do is a crying Indian and line go up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The US has had falling greenhouse gas emissions since around 2005 or so. There is actually a lot happening there.