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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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In surprise vote, European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] Maeve@kbin.social 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where I live, way down South in the USA, the general attitude is God isn't going to let this happen. Most of my neighboring towns are projected to be under water in the next two decades, tops. But God said he wouldn't destroy the earth with floods again...

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could always point out that God isn’t the one destroying the earth with floods.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

I tried. Have you spent time in conversation with maga and q-adjacent personalities? I maybe changed some perspectives of one. If so, I'm very grateful for both his and my sake. I'll continue to carry the message, but at some point, you move on to the next one, you know?