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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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‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Insects are animals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that is what they are saying. People would rather eat insects, which are animals, rather than just go vegan

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You'd rather eat a bean with 6 pairs of legs instead of a bean with no legs?

the "insect farming" idea is mostly hype to get subsidies, as the demand is absent, the subsidized insect farming will just end up as concentrated feed for the usual vertebrate animal farming operations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I wasn't commenting my opinion at all, actually