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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] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh neat! I'm checking them out now. I especially like the podcast, I've been getting deep into podcasts recently.

I never understood why some people are so gung-ho about podcasts until I started listening to a couple of good ones. It's like the TVTropes effect, you're listening to a good podcast and then they have a guest on who also has their own podcast so you start listening to them, and then it snowballs...

One podcast I recently found is called Climate Now and it's a great briefer on the nuts and bolts of climate policy and actions.