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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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We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising? (www.vox.com)
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[–] Aksamit 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Define 'not helping'?

Burying your head in the sand thinking this polycrisis is salvageable, is making things worse for everyone.

There is no future. Fantasies about having a bunch of grandkids in socialist enclaves of community gardens, or whatever, is hopium propaganda. Each new person created for this future you keep talking about, is adding a truly huge amount of carbon, heat and pollution to the planet.

Talking about how bad the polycrisis is, is hopefully getting through to enough people and making them less likely to procreate on a dying planet.

Less children born = less resources depleted and less carbon and heat speeding shit up = fewer dying children and more time to come up with physics defying magic to solve entropy and restore our planet.

(Or idk, god or aliens or something equally as unlikely saves us. Surviving this is not my fantasy and you should pick something that appeals to you.)

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] Aksamit 0 points 3 days ago

People like you are why we never stood a chance. Our species deserves this timeline.