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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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[–] Yondoza 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Love how nuclear is a great base load source of energy for day to day fluctuations, but also when viewed from a timeline of decades. Good ol reliable nuclear.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really wish we would stop with all the natural gas tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Definitely. It's going to take sharply increasing the rate of wind, solar, and storage build-out in order to force large-scale decommissioning of gas-burning power plants in the same way we achieved with coal.