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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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[โ€“] thbb@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Well, if we want to feed everyone in Europe and not spend 50% of our revenue on food like humanity has before the 19th century, we will have to keep an industrial agriculture, specially now that population is triple what it was then.

Europe's goals wrt. agriculture are myopic.

Specially when we consider that organic farming emits between 12 and 50% more greenhouse gases per calorie produced than reasoned industrial agriculture.

[โ€“] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cool. Let's do a mix of regenerative and industrial plant based agriculture then. Animals contribute 70% of the emissions whilst providing <20% of the nutrients.

We can also end fossil-fuel fed energy crops while we're at it.

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