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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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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is not as much denialism, as what causes denialism. As long as people benefit from fossil fuels, the meat industry and so forth, they are going to defend that. The key is not to create more pain, but to reduce the number of people benefiting from destroying the planet. In other words, climate action has a positive feedback loop. Success anywhere also helps other people. For example if Germany shuts down coal power plants, that is good news for Colombians fighting coal mines producing the coal, which was exported to Germany.