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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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How climate change harms children’s health » Yale Climate Connections (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a very real concern. I just don't understand why this isn't a Hot Topic among the moms around me. They can talk about anything under the sun that is harmful to their kids, things that are directly or indirectly caused by climate change, but glossed over climate change itself. I guess it's just one of the things they feel are out of their reach, too bleak probably.

I don't have strong aversion to kids like some hardliner anti-natalist, but this is why I strongly prefer adoption than making babies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a general problem with people not talking about climate, not just on how it impacts health. It's not that it's particularly more bleak than anything else, but that people are afraid of not getting social approval if they do.