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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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[–] Konlanx@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The stuff leading to the climate crisis ruins everything. The climate crisis itself is amazing and forces us to think about better solutions.

I really hope it leads to less cars, less pollution, more connection to nature and more human conditions everywhere.

I want a solution for the cause, which is fossil fuels, meat consumption (consumerism in general) and pollution. Even without the climate crisis we are experiencing now it would be great to have less of all of that.