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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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Can COP28 Save The Planet? (link.nowthisnews.com)
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Can COP help save the planet?

I tried answering that question last year. Although I decided the answer was no, it can’t save the planet — nor can any single climate conference, for that matter — climate summits are important, because they push the needle forward ...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Possibly, but not because of what is accomplished there. If anything it will be the optics of holding it in a place where fossil fuels is literally half of their economy and it being run by a fossil fuel executive.

This shows we can't rely on governments and corporations to fix it for the benefit of humanity.

Costs for renewables is going down. Support for ending car dependency and reducing meat consumption is growing.

Recent data shows that the majority of humans want to do something.

What does all this mean? In places where we can make a difference, it means YOU and I need to get to work. Be broken record on social media. Influence decision makers at work (greener is cheaper in many cases, so not a hard sell), become active in local politics where you have a better chance to influence things.

Here is the thing, the more we reduce the demand for oil, the less power and influence they have, so the easier it gets to make progress.

We don't need a savior, we need an army of regular people all doing their parts. The larger the army grows, the more it will be socially unacceptable to drive a canyonero and other harmful activities.