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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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[–] strugglingtiger@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

#The US military is the world's largest polluter (contributor to climate change).

Fuck any statement from ANY member of that government that doesn't involve a complete scale back on ALL imperialist bullshit activity, including all military and "intelligence" action, covert or overt.

They have had a hand in creating most of the global issues still affecting us all today, of the last 150 years.

Climate change will be manageable once their "society" falls, and capitalism is buried in the landfill it created of what's left of our planet.