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Worried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It. Activism isn’t just the “antidote to despair.” A growing body of research suggests it’s also pretty effective at changing the world. (newrepublic.com)
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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The single most effective thing an individual can do to prevent climate change is to assasinate an oil executive.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I get a growing body if I stay on the couch too long

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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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