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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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Gen Z's climate anxiety is real and needs action -- for everyone's wellbeing (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think Millennials are laying the foundations. Talking to parents/ old timers and discussing it. Millennials are basically the argumentative phase in the transition "you're wrong. He's why you need to change your opinion" also they are the ones that are making new departments and new policies in long established businesses. They are making the changes.

Gen Z are the "clean" generation. They don't need to argue and don't even act like it's up for discussion. They say we have a problem that everyone knows it is a problem, why aren't we fixing it in the way we should. They are the builders.