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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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Cop28 failed to halt fossil fuels’ deadly expansion plans – so what now? The absence of a ‘phase-out’ let petrostates off the hook, but there are other ways to end the era of coal, oil and gas (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] silence7 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The other option is to take a job working on decarbonizing the larger system.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do they need IT people? I guess I'd be willing to learn a new skill too.

[–] silence7 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course. There's a fair bit of that.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but where would be a good place to start looking? My line of work definitely indirectly contributes to the mess and I want out.

[–] silence7 6 points 11 months ago

Depends a lot on what country you're in. There's something of a database here but if you go down the list of things that need doing from the IPCC you may find that personal networking will connect you to somebody doing one of them.