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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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It’s Possible to End Global Poverty Without Compromising Climate Goals, New Research Shows (www.ecowatch.com)
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Ensuring that everyone on Earth has a decent standard of living is possible in accordance with reducing emissions quickly and decisively.

More info: Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios: introducing DESIRE

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You speak as if we owned the means of production. The point of all these "it's actually 100 million people who are at fault, not the 100 who actually make decisions" articles is so that responsibility is dissolved to a point of nonexistence and nothing gets done.

At this rate, blame the cows. Their farts are a very large part of climate change. If they didn't fart, we'd be much better off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I just farted when I giggled at this. I feel shame.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago

Those cows exist because hundreds of millions of people eat cow meat, the 0.1% doesn't force us to eat it.