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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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US squandering billions on unproven climate solutions, critics say (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] Sanctus 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"US Burns Last Bridge At Behest of Corporations"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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It's not even a particularly bad one, compared to Dole coups, Coca Cola assassination, and Uniroyal napalming civilians.

[–] Sanctus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are no other bridges after the climate is fucked. This is the End of the Line.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasting money on bad solutions is not the same as fucking it up completely.

Also, I don't know if you're being unrealistically optimistic or unrealistically pessimistic, but there are still deeper depths to sink to than just fucking up the climate. That still has a whole range from reducing the carrying capacity of the earth to 5 billion or to 5 million or 5 thousand or zero, and there are more or less horrifying ways to handle that drop too.

[–] Sanctus 1 points 1 week ago

No idea what you're trying to get across but eugenics is not the answer