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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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What makes middle school even worse? Climate anxiety. Students have big feelings about climate change. Most teachers don’t know how to help. (grist.org)
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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It'd be as if a huge asteroid were falling toward Earth, and no one was trying to stop it.

Of course, teachers don't know how to help. What can kids be told? Recycling was easy, there was something they could do, even if it was mostly bullshit. This is beyond any one person to solve, and the people we're electing to lead don't GAF.

Oh, but here's some "good news", some schools are letting cops in to train kids to narc on their parents for drugs. So, we have that at least. /s

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

What can kids be told? Not to despair for one. That never helped anybody. Make them aware who the real culprits are (obscenely rich people) and how to fight them and their attempts at manipulation. Teach them critical thinking, how to identify and combat misinformation and propaganda. Tell them how to organize, protest and be politically active.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I get ya as we really needed to step up the game in 2k and we did quite the opposite. I think citizen kong has a good point that all they can do is their core function and teach critical thinking.