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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] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is an anarchist instance, we're on the same page. Ending capitalism is the only real way out of all of this.

But right now, at this very moment, things are not doomed. They could be doomed in the future, but that isn't written yet. So yes, fight like hell, but realize that a lot of people who read comments like "We're fucked. It's over", or read the OP's article, will come away thinking we've already reached a human extinction level event, which we absolutely have not yet, and can still influence.

It's important to frame it that we can still make a difference, otherwise people will simply give up and not worry about trying to fix things since they believe it's all fucked and pointless, which can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.