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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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A recent study has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for two-thirds of observable climate warming (futurism.com)
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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t really like the rhetoric of “we” are doing this. The rich, the warmongers, the imperialists, the capitalists are the ones doing it to us and the world.

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No raindrop feels responsible for the flood.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Terrible metaphor for this when the vast majority of this “flood” is being created by a small minority of people.

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

A billion people isn't a small minority. You and me are part of it.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

"We" is a relative term when I use it here ... I don't mean specifically you ... or me ... I mean the majority of people everywhere in the world who actively don't do anything as a collective to stop all this insanity and just go about perpetuating the system that is slowly destroying all of us.