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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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Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Billionaires are dragons. Like the bad kind, like Smaug.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

There are so few good dragons in fiction that most people are likely not thinking of the good dragons first.

I am struggling to think of good dragons.

Edit: I should have thought harder. I forgot about Puff.

[–] Tiresia 5 points 4 months ago

D&D has the metallic dragons and Bahamut. There's also Falkor from The Neverending Story, the How To Train Your Dragon movie series, the titular Dragon Prince, ...

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