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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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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Humanity won't end, we're far too resilient. The age of human civilisation as we understand might very well end though.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ll settle for “endangered”

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly the best chance the planet has left versus our continued survival. I was hoping we could avoid purge/culling/mad-max levels of absurdity, yet here we are. I'm truly a monster for bringing my children into this world, and worse for trying, but failing, to raise them accordingly.

IE, I think they are more good people versus being tenaciously intent on survival at all costs. The species needs more of both, I guess.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just teach them to be useful, and they will survive.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

I wanted them to teach others that tenacity, to lead by example when it comes seizing life by the horns in the face of adversity. Yeah, I should't be too upset that they have been too comfortable until these last 6 weeks.

Maybe I should have raised them to be leaders in adition to being decent people, although the one supervises a bunch of cashiers at 16, so guess they'll be alright, if not contagiously so. My personal aversion to positions of authority did not rup off on them.