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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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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics (www.ipolitics.ca)
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The overall message here I think is: action is still necessary, but the reality is that we're too caught up in politics and economics and we missed our chance at mitigation. Now we need to look to how to cope with what's coming.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Rich people, nobles, so on, are only so because they stand on top of a mass of people that grants them their benefits. It should be in their interest to foster and nurture the society they live in, because they stand to reap greater benefits than anybody else.

No bunker is going to shelter you from the fall of society, unless you have a plan and the skills to become a warlord or something.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Based on this interview with Douglas Rushkoff, they can't even fathom treating their security guards well to prevent them from revolting in the bunker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Even a warlord would need a whole bunch of people willing to support them.

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

Yeah that's what I meant, unless you plan to be the baddest warlord in order to keep hold of your bunker through terror and violence, good luck