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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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I’m a Climate Activist. I’m Not Giving Up Just Yet. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

However any climate activist worth their salt has given up on the NYT.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The NYT has some very real problems — they are very much in the pocket of the oil industry — but they also have a huge audience and some trustworthy reporters working for them. Publishing an op-ed in the NYT is a good way to reach a much broader chunk of the population the Bill McKibben would reach through his own newsletter or the New Yorker.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 weeks ago

I am sorry, I no longer feel that good people putting their names under the banner of NYT is helpful, the NYT has become a weapon of the rich preying on the truth and good people like Bill Mckibben putting their words there just provides a smoke screen of legitimacy for that to happen.