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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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Kicking Native People Off Their Land Is a Horrible Way to Save the Planet (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

an estimated 476 million Indigenous peoples dwell on lands that are home to 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity.

This seems important. This is a number not often talked about in aggregate, at least that I've seen. Recognizing my own dis-ease at feeling like I would have way underestimated that figure before reading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

@krewllobster worth pointing out that in many cases one of the reasons the biodiversity still exists in those places is because they're mainly just Indigenous people living there.