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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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The Next Pope Will Help Decide the Planet’s Fate | The Vatican has a chance to lead on climate change by electing another vocal environmentalist. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It seems to me that the influence of the head of a religious minority on the political and economic decisions of the free world is grossly overestimated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

His willingness to do something actually good is overestimated even more :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

We need every reasonably large group on board, so Catholic support for doing the right thing is something I'll welcome.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Are you calling Catholicism a "religious minority" lmao. Tell me you are USian without telling me you are USian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Sorry for having mistold you, but I'm German. Last year, our proportion of Catholics was 23.7% - and less than 50% of the population are of any Christian confession anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

So the impact of Chinese climate policy is also vastly overestimated because the Chinese are a small minority of earths people?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Very american of you to think your country represents the other 6 billion humans too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There are roughly 1.3 billion Catholics around the world. I hope you understand that 1.3 is less than 50% of 6.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Very German of you to think 1/5 is a minority lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

You're trolling, right? You're not really this stupid, it's an act?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Last time I checked, the meaning of “minority” was “less than the larger group” (which is non-Catholics).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I'm expecting the worst. Just to be safe. Nothing has gone right since Harambe died.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I got it. You're using "minority" for "people I don't like". My bad.