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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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Joe Rogan and Other Top Podcasts Spread Climate Disinfo, Research Finds | Analyses of top podcasts show a trend of climate change denial and misinformation. (www.desmog.com)
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[–] ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 1 points 20 hours ago

It is a chicken and egg problem.

The real root cause as you said is very likely down to individual's media literacy and critical thinking skills. But the solution to educate everyone from ground up would be very costly and less efficient.

From an efficiency perspective, the government have to figure out ways to stop misinformation from spreading in short term. And hopefully, next few generation will have better critical thinking and analytic skills to online information.

I don't know how they would draw the line between misinformation and first amendment. But hopefully, a competent government will see this as a problem and find solutions to it.