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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why one billionaire is thinking about moving to Mars to avoid it all

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not only.

Don't forget the mars one guys from 10 years ago which I told was a scam so we're recruiting people to join

There was exactly 1 rocket scientist on that team and the heads of the team were in marketing, and the vast majority were people you'd never trust to even drive your car (mostly sales people)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

People on Reddit were defending them at the time. I told them it wouldn't happen, because they need proper engineers and scientists.

Looks like the rocket engineer should have worked harder though