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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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Death toll from heat at hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia passes 900 (www.lemonde.fr)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s not really easy for us to tell who’s useful for society, even less so if you want to be even a little bit objective. If your metric is intelligence, that’s not a good one (depression, substance use disorder, and many other things that don’t make for a super happy or functional person are correlated with intelligence).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about intelligence. There's lots of intelligent religious people. I'm talking about people killing themselves because their religious leaders want them to pray in 120° heat in the sun. Unless you're being forced, if you willingly doing that, you're an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There’s going to be unintended consequences if you intentionally get rid of agreeable, optimistic people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When did I ever say I wanted to intentionally get rid of people?

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

That’s fair, sorry. There’s going to be unintended consequences if agreeable, optimistic people are suddenly gone from the population, which the original removed comment starting this thread suggested wasn’t an issue.