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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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"Arctic Climate Collapse! This time it's REALLY flipped!!" - Just have a Think (www.youtube.com)
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The Arctic region has been a massive store of carbon for thousands of years. Now it's warming between 3 and 7 times faster than the global average and that carbon is escaping into our atmosphere. The latest research suggests that more than a third of it is now a net emitter! And in case you're wondering...that's NOT good!

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social -2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Thank you, I was wondering about that, yes!? πŸ˜„

On a more serious note, I suspect that this is a part of the reason why we are seeing democracies failing all across the globe - the general populace is too selfish and short-sighted to do anything about what is coming, thus paving the way for people willing to make hard calls (even if at first they seem to be ignoring the climate situation, nonetheless what they pave the way to open up to likely seems like it could be gaining support due to this impending doom scenario looming over the horizon).

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago

A lot of the people being voted in will just create bunkers for themselves to survive a cataclysm and leave the rest of us to die.

People are being more selfish than usual because they have internet algorithms that will tell them that they're in the right. The internet has made people incredibly spiteful. To the point they're willing to screw themselves over to make things worse for someone else.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is a horrible horrible horrible take

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 7 hours ago

You can make a good argument that is how Carter lost to Reagan.

[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't doubt this is whats behind at least a few ethno-state ideologues.

MMW over the next 10 years we'll see a rise in eco-facism.

[–] RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I mean if the people in charge aren’t trying to save us … guess we will have to one way or the other