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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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[โ€“] neanderthal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The good news is, they will start to feel it. Fix this shit now is becoming more and more mainstream. Just wait until sea rise consumes their costal mansions. Just wait until a hurricane destroys their self insured Manhattan sky scraper. Just wait until an EF5 tornado wrecks their middle of nowhere mansion. We won't be waiting long.

[โ€“] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We had the extra luxury beach resort owned by the family of our tourism Ministry (sounds like a conflict of interest but she wasn't in charge then) destroyed by a hurricane, but the climate change scepticism of the government per se remained untouched.

Your reasoning assumes they are intelligent enough to understand concepts like causation or correlation. They aren't.