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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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[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is there a website to take this test somewhere?

[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm only seeing a "short version" linked that has one question (and a horrible one at that, it's a ranking of 5 things that are all about "average Americans"). Based on this question alone, I'm forced to assume the test itself was stupid yet their conclusion is likely correct.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Agreed, that question is worthless. What's "average"?

[–] lluki@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

And whats a long-haul flight? I was assuming a transatlantic return flight, which ticks in at 2t. Yet their result shows less than half of that.

[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

All I know is the "average" person has slightly less than one testicle.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Dw it's a stupid test that doesn't use any real numbers and instead hinges on "the average american" so it's all a guessing game about american consumption