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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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Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation | Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This may sound a little harsh, but with what we know now about climate change, and well, it already being known SINCE BEFORE THE 1900S, with what we know about all the pain and suffering that it will cause (and already is causing), I think that denying climate change should become a criminal offense.

You're literally propagandizing a personal agenda of a tiny few for a few bucks and that agenda will likely result in more death and destruction than WWII.

Once food scarcity really starts kicking in, once climate refugees will try to go anywhere but will be rejected everywhere (you know they will), once the wars start over the reduced availability of resources, we may be looking at incredible death tolls.

This is not something hypothetical, this is pretty much where we'll be headed in the next few decades. Yet we somehow allow people to lie about this for a few bucks?

It's no different really than these right wing tools that are parroting Russian talking points for money from Russia (hello Tim pool, paid shills) that are destroying the country from within and when caught, nothing really happened.

As far as I'm concerned, You're aiding in the deaths of countless people for some money. String them up from the highest tree for treason. These are not good people, these are not nice people, these are the effing horsemen of the apocalypse, so to speak, and they do it for money. Good ol greed.

String them up, leave them hanging. I've run through all my patience with these disgusting influencers.