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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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

And the nuance being..?

Ivet seen this happen over and over, and it always plays out on the same way. A bunch of heroic people will come and save the day, governments will make some half haphazard gesture, and that's it, and next year we'll be in the same shit again. Nothing was done to actually fix the underlying problem, experts were ignored. I've seen this over and over and over and now I see this, based on previous experiences I make a prediction, and you tell me to be nuanced.

How?

I'd love to see it play out different but the simple fact is that the solution requires people to reserve a big cut of all world economies and spend it on repairing the world.

That, in turn, rewuiri politicians that are willing to tell people "hey, we'll have to increase taxes and you'll have to do with a little less". The problem THERE of course is that 90% of the wealth I'd with 10% of the people, so squeezing that 90% of people for money they don't have won't work, and those 10% will get that politician fired and...

Yeah, so you do have a solution, I take it?