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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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How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true (www.latimes.com)
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[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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Group therapy helps scientists cope with challenging 'climate emotions'

We know collective and individual climate action can alleviate negative climate emotions.

It’s very easy to fall into this vortex, right? Of thinking about climate change as a problem and not just climate change, but global environmental change, ecological loss.

The nature of academia means climate emotions overlap with “Intersectionality” to worsen their experience.

Our findings support the value of group therapy as a cathartic outlet for climate emotions among environmental scientists.

As a result, climate anxiety is likely to become more prolific, perhaps most so in climate scientists.