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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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ok, fair it wasn't productive to challenge your credentials and it hurt my point.

The genuine part that matters to my point is that there are and are going to be a lot more negative emotions around this, because this is about grief.

I get defensive because sometimes it feels like people want to exclude negativity as an axiom to a sober conversation about our future.

I hope I am wrong, my opinion is always evolving, but right now I think is a time to speak honestly about how negative things are shrugs.