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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 system that moves water around the Earth is off balance for the first time in human history (edition.cnn.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14516231

The consequences will be even more catastrophic without urgent action. The water crisis threatens more than 50% of global food production and risks shaving an average of 8% off countries’ GDPs by 2050, with much higher losses of up to 15% projected in low-income countries, the report found.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the economy!?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or the 50% of global food production that is mentioned to be impacted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Will this increase shareholder profits??

Our idiocy is killing ourselves for a few people, I just wish more people gave a shit about this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No, but it will increase the fraction of total global capital that is owned by the shareholders, and isn't that what really matters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

its designed to make people not worry until the last moment. education would change things but can not compete with entertainment.

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

Nestlé:

sounds like a market opportunity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe Kamala Harris will be against fracking again in 4 more years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it didn’t take Pennsylvania to with the electoral college she might not have to support it. But our voting system is fucked, so to get an actual decent person elected, they have to play games.

Once you understand or admit how the game must be played, you’ll realize how stupid these types of comments are.

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

Yeah, right lest we forget, it's Kamala who wants to frack and not the industry, the pickup driving rig pig voters she needs or the lobby. What the FUCK ever. I can't roll my eyes hard enough.