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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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'Doom loops' are accelerating climate change—but we can break them (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Helpful for pushing against the "its too late" crowd.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The "it's too late" crowd isn't and has never been the problem. They've been painted as the scapegoat by the same ones who want to keep the status quo going. We can acknowledge that for many things we're way past fixing them and yet start doing something different to reduce even more damage. Whether it will matter in the end is irrelevant, doomers and optimists can still agree we need to change, and quickly.

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

The problem is not real. The problem is "their" fault. They deserved it. We wouldn't know what to do. It will cost too much. It is too late to do anything.

All of those are pointless and obstructionist.