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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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Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate” (jacobin.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's my understanding that their constitution was intended to be regularly updated, with things being added, modified or replaced as the needs and sensibilities of the times changed.

When it was written, nobody could have fathomed that one might need to specify the right to a stable climate, because humans couldn't modify the climate.

Now, we can, and have, in horrific ways.

So, it's reasonable to consider adding this right to their constitution, unless you don't think people have a right to, well, life. As the climate changes, a great many things change to make simply staying alive more and more difficult, not to mention trying to have a functioning life at the same quality level, in the midst of extreme and more regularly occurring climate change caused wildfires, droughts, floods, etc etc.