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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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IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions: our actions determine the future (slrpnk.net)
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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So we chose to become death, the destroyer of worlds

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Failure is a possibility, but so is success.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

...so is success

Not if conservatives and their corporate backers have anything to say about it.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

It's on us to stop them

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this from one of the IPCC updates? Good visualization.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's from a paper which got used as part of generating one of the IPCC updates

[–] MuThyme@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Forgive me for asking, but what about this makes it a good visualisation?

Maybe I just don't know how to read it, but this looks completely meaningless to me.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 1 points 10 months ago

Several elements strike me.

It lays out options in a way that described the fork we are at. Asking the implicit question, are we going to turn left, go straight, or go right as I'd we are driving up a hill.

It also shows the shallow bumps in the road we have experienced and allows you to compare where we are going and how fast the hill has started climbing.

Now what is not great is the tags as it does not do great at explaining how the different scenario are derived and probability. That is pretty hard to do in a single infographic though.