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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€“] azolus@slrpnk.net 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What are you smoking? Transitioning away from fossil fuels is the most impactful way we can curb emissions.

[โ€“] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

And stopping the increase in plastics production - plastics made from fossil oil that is used mostly for packaging and then lillte later becomes garbage which is burned, releasing more carbon.