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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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America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brought to you by the oil industry and capitalism.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And religious fundamentalism (which is also why so many Americans think that the Earth is flat)

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I sometime forget that the US is a cultist society. But as stated in the article, we should not undermine the neoliberal ideology:

The first is that the climate crisis is simply too big and complex to attribute to any particular entity, rendering individual accountability impractical and unfair. “The court made clear that that is not an excuse that holds up anymore,”