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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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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well, technically we'll reduce out emissions. Just, it'll likely be after a mass extinction event.

[–] ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social 22 points 3 months ago

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Will the rotting corpses cause a spike in carbon emissions or would it immediately drop?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Rotting corpses can't order scop from Temu that ships on old bunker fuel ships, oddly in private jets that account for hundreds of cars worth of emissions per flight.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think humans are mostly carbon-neutral, but decomposition might release gasses that are worse than just CO2. Burning them directly would probably be better.