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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 can reclaim control of our destiny,' Al Gore says of climate change | The former vice president found hope in the possibility that humans have the tools to repair the planet. (www.politico.com)
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[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I keep forgetting Al Gore is still kicking around.

[–] bh11235@infosec.pub 13 points 9 months ago

Human Gore is long gone. This is AI Gore, it says so in the title.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Keep in mind Al Gore is a politician not a scientist.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

He ran for president. His talking points were listening to scientists and not spending the budget surplus gained in the Clinton years when Al was vice president.

He won the popular vote, lost Florida which was governed by Dubbya's brother and we got Dubbya in the white house.

Over the next few years we got the SUV, Iraq war and warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. Climate scientists were labeled the enemy, EPA was turned into a joke and Haliburton and Petro comanies were doing better than they ever dreamed.

[–] iraq_lobster@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

politicians only role is to be against the person in charge, even just out of spite to look like they are aware of the shortcomings of said governing body; they just like to stir things up in order to stay relevant, while in fact they dont really add any value to society. Just another middleman between imperialists and the bottom 80%.

Yea i know: in a former post, american 'lemmies' ? argued that 100k$/year salary puts you in the top 10% of american society, and apparently 75k$ earners are just homeless people, hence the 80%..

[–] Syl@jlai.lu 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But do they have the will?

It seems to be business as usual.

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they don't today then they will once things get weird

[–] Syl@jlai.lu 1 points 9 months ago

Yep, but this won't be as easy as today.

[–] StrayCatFrump@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

I mean, we'll never do it under capitalism, Gore. So you good with dismantling capitalism?

(Crickets, I'm sure.)

[–] iraq_lobster@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

decentralize governance, fediverse style. Senate my ass.