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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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2023's extreme storms, heat and wildfires broke records – a scientist explains how global warming fuels climate disasters (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People are always going to twist language to their selfish purposes.

I prefer "global warming" over "climate change" because it is more specific and more likely to be seen as a potential problem by anyone who bothers to think about it. It also gives us a specific goal, whereas climate change is, if not neutral, then non-specific in the goal.

And when it really comes down to it, I prefer something like "greenhouse effect" and "Greenhouse Earth" because they strike much closer to the root causes. "Greenhouse Earth" is particularly good at getting at the root of the issue: that humanity has always and continues to treat the Earth like a literal greenhouse, trying to manage what lives and dies under what conditions strictly to our own benefit. If we're going to do that anyway, then let's do it right and manage the temperature along with everything else.