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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 media covers only a narrow slice of climate research—one that inspires fear over action (www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
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[–] huskypenguin 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope you're not suggesting that climate science shouldn't be trusted. The point of the article is that papers which discussed short term impacts on local communities could inspire more immediate change in individuals.

Anecdotally, what I've seen about these long term end of the 21st century studies, is that they've all been too conservative. How many climate headlines have you seen these past two years that have said "faster than expected"?

[–] Feweroptions 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hope you're not suggesting that climate science shouldn't be trusted.

I'm saying that blind faith in any science leaves one vulnerable. It is a bureaucratic labyrinth of conflicting human interests, and far from the pure philosophical ideal of pursuing knowledge and truth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is true for basicly everything humans ever touched. Humans are just not perfect, so you have to look at their personal intrest. Fortunatly science tends to attract a fairly large group of people actually intressted in studying the subject and not too much about personal gain. That is combined with a culture of testing ideas, which make faking more difficult, but not impossible. What I want to say is that science tends to be among the most accurate systems we have, certainly better then politicans or capitalists.