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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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The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (climateintegrity.org)
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So upsetting that it takes decades for this information to surface.....

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

A decade? This has been talked about for well over 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Recycling and blaming everyone for their “carbon footprint” managed to block systemic change for decades.

We found out recycling was bullshit recently. We found out that reducing your “carbon footprint” by being cold in the winter was bullshit many years ago.

It’s all bullshit. It always has been. Oil company billionaires decided they wanted to make more money, and that killing the planet’s ability to keep the rest of us alive is worth sacrificing.

And the oil companies owned the politicians in charge. They still do. As do the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the banks, etc. The game was rigged from the start.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember when my city was doing single stream recycling and thinking “there is no way anyone is sorting this shit, it is totally going into the dump.” And that is from simmering who used to ride the back of a recycling truck and emptying sorted bins into compartments on the truck.