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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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The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame. (www.thenation.com)
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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Public opinion has almost nothing to do with government policy. They will continue to kill us all, as long as there's a financial incentive.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Financial incentive has surprisingly little to do with capitalist/government actions. They will gladly lose billions as long as it means lower class people suffer, and they will pay billions to bail out billionaire friends that are in a tough spot.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I was talking about the financial incentive for the oil industry. As long as there's a financial incentive for them, the government will continue to do nothing to stop climate change.