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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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World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Konlanx@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But think of the shareholder value!

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I am so tired of peasants trying to do violence on muhh holy profits!

[–] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A bunch of very wealthy people are behind on it because it doesn't make them money.

I know billionaires are deeply unpopular here, but I would support anyone who can fix this problem to become infinitely wealthy and live like a god.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

The problem is that while green energy and technology are profitable, they don’t tend to be easily monopolized as easily as thier competitors. If your used to a monopoly where you can name your price and the government will bow becuse think of the gas prices, and equal playing field is a terrifying possibility. I mean if billion people die becuse of your product that’s inconvenient, but losing that sort of power, that’s terrifying, and these people are used to spending a bit of money to make terrifying go away.

[–] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fucked up as it is, I'm actually glad. Our species is so fucking evil to each other and it's horrifying to comprehend how much worse it could get if we don't destroy ourselves.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

I'm starting to feel that way too. Watching all of the killing going on in the East. Then instead of helping, the West is making a profit off of it. Eventually when things are bad enough the West will be killing each other too.

I'm ready to watch it all burn to the ground. I've got my lawn chair and popcorn. 😕