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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean only rich people will be okay long enough to adapt. The rest of us will be left to die.
I don't know about you, but I don't want a future where the greed driven, amoral, ethicless elites get to live on while everyone else gets to suffer and die.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago

The rich will be the only one to survive how exactly?

Do you have any idea of how much empty space there is available in the northern hemisphere? A huge portion of the planet are inhabitable as it is now. Not because of heat but the opposite. The ocean level rising is neither a new phenomenon. The ocean has raised and fallen multiple times through the existence of our species. The first people who got to UK walked there. And when they settled hippos lived there.

Humans have never lived in a static environment. Most humans aren't capable of imagining time beyond their own lifetime. Therefore some choose to resign. I guess that's Darwinism at its finest.

I'm all in with climate change suck. I'm all for dragging the rich out in the street and setting them on fire for fucking everything up. But how some think we live in this static environment that only changed just now, and it will be our end is just wrong.