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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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Hot Enough For You? After this summer, no one can deny our climate crisis. (newrepublic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“no one” is a big challenge … the ones who are on the fence could be reasoned with, and then we have those who are extremely stubborn who cannot change until it affects them directly. And those who use denial to gain power will likely continue to do so …

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh I've seen people deny it when it affects them directly

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

Right, there are those too. I guess the point is, “no one” is practically impossible. Complete public perception of climate change should not be the ultimate goal, it’s just not realistic.

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

My coworker sees snow once a year and says: see, climate change is bullshit.

Yeah i guess. 20 years ago i used to go to school on skis. Now it snows once im two years.