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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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The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow (www.economist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“How do I justify to voters taking away subsidies, school funding and health care to build a waste-processing plant or a big sea wall?” asks a finance minister. “In 20 years of course it will be useful, but it is the cost now that is concerning.”

The justification for lack of climate action in a sentence. No one wants to forego now, for a better experience in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Call me crazy, but I would say that new schools and hospitals also improve the experience in the future. The issue is that the poorest countries really need to do all of it schools, health care, infrastructure and going green, but they can not afford it, so they have to make really hard choices. For rich countries that is much less of a problem. For a normal Frenchmen $1000 less per year means no vactaion, to a normal Zambian it means starvation.