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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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Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024 (wmo.int)
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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 13 points 1 week ago

Humanity bout to find out what happens when you play god and lose.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I’ll ask AI for a solution! Oh, wait…

[–] Hypx@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

I hope people here are realizing that our current strategies are not working. They are mostly just "feel-good" solutions like paper straws, and will not eliminate the need for fossil fuels. Which is why I keep pushing for green hydrogen, because I already knew this and want real solutions to be pursued.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

For all the rah rah about greening technology, here we are making things worse, faster than ever.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Yay capitalism!

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Plants be happy

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends
They start to give off CO2 when it gets to hot - or at least can't take up as much anymore

We aren't just losing storage, nature joins us in producing more CO2 the hotter it gets