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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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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other (theconversation.com)
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[–] hanrahan 2 points 6 hours ago

Climate Change is but one symptom of living lifestyles beyond the ecosystems ability to sustain us. All natural systems grow and consume until they die off and find a balance, as will we.. The difference with is is we know we are and yet we still do it, I'd sugest thats thenkiteral definition of stupid,

You can see similar sorts of behaviour with smoking, drinking alcohol etc etc it's just with climate change it's exestntial.