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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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Tired of feeling hopeless about climate change? Take a look at these charts. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We’ll likely not be able to stave off the worst effects of climate change, hell, we’re just beginning to feel its effects now, but we will likely survive and adapt to it (or we’ll just die, whatever). Life on Earth won’t likely be the same as what we we’ve been used to. Many animal species will likely die off though, so hopefully somebody somewhere has built an arc or a DNA storage vault or whatever so we can try to repopulate the world later on.