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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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Pope Francis Couldn’t Travel to the U.N. Climate Summit, but His Voice Did (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] silence7 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because they have power, (or repersent people who do hold it in the case of King Charles) and need to be on board with the solution.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I see it as an admission that unelected people or undemocratically elected people have so much power over the world.