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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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Can we keep this community global? (self.climate)
submitted 1 year ago by sudoreboot to c/climate
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It's almost exclusively about USA right now and frankly I'm sick of this US-centrism.

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[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I totally agree that climate is a worldwide topic, not sure what you think the options are here…

If the majority of users submit and upvote US based stories, that’s what will appear in the community.

If the majority upvote more global stories, that’s what’ll appear.

The only other option I can think of would be adding a rule prohibiting US stories, but that feels like it’s going too far the other direction, no?

[–] sudoreboot 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what the exact solutions are, I just know there is a problem of cultural dominance. Perhaps a slightly increased standard for international relevance wouldn't be entirely unreasonable? There are sometimes intranational political developments of interest to the rest of the world, but if we're just letting popular vote decide what subscribers see without moderation, then based on initial observation, non-USians will just have to move to more regionally specific communities/instances or consent to cultural assimilation.