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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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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it got downvotes because the people pushing the question tend to be promoting the idea that we could have a wonderful pure environment if only we killed off all the brown people.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure. But then shouldn't people be convincing those people of why that thinking is bad? See my other comment regarding building consensus:

https://lemmy.world/comment/5637524

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why I had a comment explaining why it's bad. Downvotes serve to make it less visible

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, I wasn't pointing a finger at you specifically. Rather, I thought your response was excellent! I'm more just pointing out the civility of our discourse so that other people can learn effective communication strategies, and better my own as well. Thank you for your reasonable responses.