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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Yeah agreed. I'm just saying what's the difference between someone choosing to subject themselves to that heat for religion vs someone who chose to do it for some other reason. I'm not religious, but the fact that someone else died practicing what they believe doesn't make me happy. The initial comment I replied to is just feeding into the atheism circle-jerk that's really common here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The point is that someone willing to die in the heat for something that doesn't exist probably isn't the most useful to society. It doesn't have to make you happy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

why hate on them if you don't understand them? I honestly couldn't care less about religion personally, but I don't go out of my way to say they're stupid. sounds like you think the Muslim religion is stupid and so you're projecting onto Muslims and saying they're stupid because you personally think the religion is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

No I don't care if people practice religion. But if you willingly go out out in deadly heat because of it, that makes you stupid. If they were doing it because of another reason I'd call that stupid too.

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