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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)
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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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[–] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can’t stop people from feeling annoyed, no. But if you’re the only one submitting, then, no, those people would have no right to complain. You’d be the person keeping the lemmy alive. I would tell those people to post the areas they feel strongly about as well. Now if there’s a good mix of topics being submitted, then sure, talk to the mods about setting up some guidelines about USA-posting. But right now I look at this lemmy and see 1-2 people donating a lot of their time, and some armchair quarterbacks being choosing beggars about the effort they’re getting for free.