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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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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

fwiw I agree, but it doesn't appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.

[–] gi1242@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

ha. i was wrong. NPR has 44 million weekly listeners. that probably qualifies as mainstream media.

I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners than that. (fyi NPR is the only radioi listen to)

https://blog.marketenginuity.com/by-the-numbers-who-is-actually-listening-to-public-radio

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 49 minutes ago

I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners

If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.