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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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Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong (www.theguardian.com)
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Changing this view means showing them; that means calling, writing, turning up in person, talking in private to staff, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The last time any politicians cared about what the public thought was somewhere in the 90's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I feel more like, for a lot of voters, climate change isn't the reason to vote for or against someone while it absolutely a wedge issue for people in industries that cause climate change.

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