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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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We Have to Protect the Trees We Have Left (thenib.com)
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Comic story by Eleri Harris

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lovely comic! It touches on a number of final details like destruction of forests in remote places for the financial benefits of other countries and how tree farms are not a replacement for forests.

If you love animals, you have to love trees just as much! They're not as cute and exciting maybe, but they are the homes and found sources for so many of those animals we love, and it takes decades or centuries of those trees being wild and left alone to become that support system of the ecosystem.