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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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How a climate scientist deals with ‘travel guilt’ | Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe reflects on flying, fossil fuels, and the tension between personal responsibility and systemic change in a warmin (www.nationalgeographic.com)
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[–] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah let's shift blame to individuals and not organizations that actually contribute the vast amount of pollutants. Good idea, then if we all make our lives actively even worse the billionaires will have an extra few years to extract profits before they kill us all anyway.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's literally been the gameplan for decades