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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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Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash | Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How about they add someone who's not a fucking fossil fuel shill?

COP is no longer real. It's a fake conference of oil representatives whose goal is to control the global narrative on climate change. Ignore them and their press releases. Nothing COP does can reasonably be considered in good faith.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I find this article to be pretty representative of where we are as a species. Instead of focusing on the potentially world ending problem in front of us we're fussing over the genitalia of a small group of people who are sort of tangentially related to solving said problem.

There's other layers to it as well which you partially addressed but the whole thing just seems so absurd when you take a step back and see it from a broader perspective. We have no collective prioritization skills. That inability to focus on what's actually important could legitimately kill us all.

[–] Radicalized@lemmy.one 11 points 9 months ago

They aren’t even tangentially related to the solution. We need to crush that myth. These are oil producers that are concerned only with how to maximize their profits from the remaining oil supply. There has been 28 of these conferences so far and not a I gel thing has been fixed. They spent the first two days of the conference arguing over the term “phasing out”.

The only way the climate crises will ever be fixed is with democratic control of heavy industry.