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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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Heat Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions in Lost Productivity (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't help but wonder whether this research or at least headline was moulded to try and finally appeal to otherwise uncaring capitalists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yes. Financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve Bank, have been dragging their feet on anything to do with climate change because "it's impossible to know the financial effects", as if catastrophe can be financially managed.

This gives those of us that want capitalists and neoclassical economist to pull their head out of their asses some leverage.