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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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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War (www.nytimes.com)
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Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Those weirdly compressed titles don't help either!

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 13 hours ago

Titles are a problem; they're all that almost everybody sees — click-through rates to articles are around 2.5% of the headline view rates. I try to increase that by using gift links and archived copies of articles; but that has a fairly limited impact on peoples' willingness to click in the first place.

Actually understanding means doing more than reading the headline, and that makes it very hard to get information across.