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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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‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This exact statement was in a one paragraph article published to my weekly reader 40 years ago. I believe it was more, "We cant continue to cut down a football field if trees wveryday for decades and expect good outcomes". So...we've know. We dont actually care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Lol that was probably when they were still doing it by hand.