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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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Fenton urges the climate community to speak of pollution – a word everyone gets – and to settle on the image of a “blanket of pollution trapping heat on Earth”. Every oil and gas emission makes that blanket thicker – and all that trapped heat helps cause floods and start fires, he says.

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[–] ThankYou@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

just tried this with my neighbor and when i said it's like a blanket of pollution he immediatly burnt his SUV and became a vegan.... Heading for parlament next

[–] cxtinac@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Shouldn't burn the SUV, causes pollution ;)

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

That SUV? Albert Einstein.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't finish the article because I got of reading the same 5 points about "hudurr, humans are dumb and can't conceive of catastrophe" because I don't have a single friend in the real world who isn't harrowingly aware that they will likely be alive when the world becomes uninhabitable, would love to do something about it, but has to put food on the table in the meantime.

It's the world's corporations and governments that are to blame for this, not individual people who just "dont get it".

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure most people "get it" now. We are entering an era of consequences. The issue is really our broken political system which prevents our institutions from taking action, and unchecked neoliberalism, which has the express intent of disempowering people.