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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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Let’s Not Kill 450,000 Owls: It’s a testament to human arrogance and cruelty that this is even being considered. (www.currentaffairs.org)
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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Until the protection of the environment is placed above success of the timber industry, any of these schemes are pointless and there will be no place for Spotted Owls to exist.

Even protected areas are vulnerable to "salvage logging" that allows harvest of trees in areas of forest fires and to build "access roads" to those areas through those areas.

Forests need to be protected, and unless they are, Spotted Owls have no chance because like mammoths, the world they were built for will no longer exist.