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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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How Indigenous Techniques Saved a Community From Wildfire (www.nytimes.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1744658

This is a look at how it's possible to limit the damage from the warmer world that fossil fuel burning has created by using:

traditional Indigenous forestry practices, including thinning the forest; cleaning up debris on the floor; and burning the debris and ground cover in a controlled way to prevent it from becoming fuel for wildfires — an act once banned by the provincial government.

This isn't something to use instead of the phasing out fossil fuels; it's one of many costs imposed by our failure to do it soon enough, and one which will become bigger if we keep on burning coal, tar, oil, and gas.

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[–] Tomassci@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Indigenous people do have an interest in saving nature and the know-how, and don't have any financial interest in destroying them

[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I often hear this called “FireWising” https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/Wildfire/Preparing-homes-for-wildfire