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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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Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime. (www.oxfam.org)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thats actually an insane metric. Like I try to be conscious and clean, but even I polute far more than I should. Then these dudes are doing that over and over every hour and a half? What the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyway, here's your shitty paper straw

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

Paper straws are fine for many use cases, but man those agave compostable straws are just like plastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Paper straws are only good for drugs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nahhhh my coke gets all caught up in the pores. Glass, metal, or plastic is the only way. But one normal plastic straw makes for three actual toot straws at a party.