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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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Is Suzuki right that it's 'too late'? We are in an era of simultaneous wins and losses — Seth Klein (www.sethklein.ca)
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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago

They are not. We're ankle deep in shit, let try to not go knee deep.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

The Keeling Curve and lately the isotopic composition is telling you everything you need to know. The only "good" news is that we're at the extraction limit.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Find out who on your block can’t walk because you’re going to have to deal with that. Who has wheelchairs? Who has fire extinguishers? Where is the available water? Do you have batteries or generators? Start assessing the routes of escape. You’re going to have to inventory your community, and that’s really what we have to start doing now.

This feels even more disheartening combined with the news that subsequent generations get lonelier and lonelier. Are they even going to have the social ability to build local communities?