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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 will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Chuymatt@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are no simple or single answers. As many simultaneous solutions as possible would be nice. Electric cars are a good stop gap.

[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Not really, they aren't stop gapping anything, a mild slowdown at most even if every single car ever was replaced. The majority of pollution is caused by like a handful of companies, electric cars will do exactly nothing to fix that while still massively contribute to the microplastic issue we got going.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only a stopgap though. Not the true solution.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sure. Fine. Good talk. Six months until death by fire.