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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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“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

“Yeah, just shut the fuck up and give more money, you whining little shits. I’ve got a survival bunker to build. They aren’t cheap you know. “

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It certainly isn't too late for that "human" to feel the warmth of a rope around its neck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"ohhh, sorry, the correct answer was last Wednesday."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, so we've finally hit the end point of The Slow Breakup

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Translation: we were not fast enough to find a way to profit from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's too late for him and his family and everyone who's ever shared a table with him or has his private phone number to continue existing with the same number of limbs and sensory organs too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When are these murderers gonna go to jail ?

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