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

With too little media coverage, I still feel like too big of portion what's pressed is being misinterpreted. I feel like people became skeptical, because often articles are about theoretical, too early or only at lab level findings. People feel baited by that, or at least I am. I agree that it would be great if climate research could be focused more on practicality, local action.