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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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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Isn't it a bit late now? It'll definitely be too late in 10 years.

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[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Sucks for Germany and their recent resurgence of coal plants and decommissioning of nuclear.

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So what is Germany gunna do? Just shut down their nuclear plants...

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[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

~~Isn't Germany doubling down on coal at the moment/bringing plants back online?~~

Edit: I was not correct, thanks for clarifying

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