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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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[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are good points too, that I hadn't thought about. I thought it would be challenging, but maybe it wouldn't be as challenging as I had imagined it.

But who knows, maybe we would be better off going back to pre-industrial times anyway?

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But who knows, maybe we would be better off going back to pre-industrial times anyway?

But how would I find interesting conversations on Lemmy if my highest tech gadget was a loom?!? :)

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, we would have to go back to the printed press and handwritten letters!