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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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Kids Are Anxious. Ignoring It Won’t Help. | Keeping climate change out of the classroom doesn’t make it go away. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

of course they're anxious. so am I

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they knew the whole unvarnished truth, they would be terrified.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m a parent and I massively struggle with this. I am trying to be completely open and honest in age appropriate way but it’s really hard to do that without it becoming a conversation about how we are all deeply, deeply in for a bad time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've tried to leave a trail of breadcrumbs, and I got called "paranoid" for years by family and the kids picked that up from them too. Now every time anyone points out the superdepressing news and where it looks like were heading I just say "don't be paranoid." and give my best derp look.

I'm still waiting for my apology, but nobody likes to hear "I told you so". At least no one calls me paranoid anymore, so there is that.