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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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Scientists skip COP28 to demand climate action at home (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Everyone should skip COP28. It's just a scam.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is an important conversation to have especially in the context of the fediverse.

Open systems are susceptible to capture. I know we were concerned about this when FB announced 'Threads'.

Its hard to maintain any kind of open forum or commons when you have bad faith actors who can freely engage in them.

I don't know what the solution is but I think there are parallels in the way we see governments being captured, these kinds of scientific conferences being captured, movements being captured. Its worth talking about in the context of a broader societal issue that I think we've collectively titled "The enshitification of all things".