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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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Ranked: Per Capita Carbon Emissions by Country (2021) (self.climate)
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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US should be at the top of every list and here isn't in the top ten? This place really is going to shit

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Clearly we need to pump up our numbers. /s

[–] iraq_lobster 3 points 1 year ago

yea, each american citizen secretly has an oil field in his backyard and 4wd cars and a herd of camels to move around just in case