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[-] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 5 months ago

Remember, decarbonising energy & transport is the "easy" part. Construction (concrete), agriculture, shipping, air travel, deforestation will be even harder and if we're going to get to net zero (or lower, preferably) all that needs to be tackled.

[-] vudu@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

What an adfest. Here is the important image

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Nice

Also, kudos to Lithuania! Seems like folks there really speed it up.

[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Didn't expect us to be great at anything except suicide rates. /s

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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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