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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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The surprisingly simple way to convince people to go green (wapo.st)
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Your trusted inner circle is one of the most potent and overlooked weapons to stave off the worst of climate change. Our individual actions appear small, but they act as billboards for others looking for cues on what to do in their own lives. These social comparisons can add up.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is there a surprisingly simple way to convince billionaires and corporations to stop polluting the planet and end their over use of fossil fuels?

[–] Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

Holding them accountable for their actions in a meaningful way.

[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is one of those, "you have the power" distraction pieces.

[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

The only way I can see us stopping fossil fuels is to introduce a global levy on its extraction. It doubles every year and the proceeds are allocated to climate change mitigation projects.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah you just have to be part of their inner circle first. Oh whats that? You're a poor? Nope they're not gonna listen to you.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Probably true, so maybe we need more tools (part of fediverse ?) to show this adding up, for individual motivation (a bit like those old chain-emails with feedback?).
On the other hand simple social-gratification tags like #flyless really bug me, because some of us have tried not-flying for decades.