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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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[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They will be safe in their air conditioned, walled, armed guarded, coal powered compounds. The rest of us are expendable to them.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No one is safe. All will suffer on a dying planet.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

The Global South will be the ones to take on the brunt of the suffering, as is tradition.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

More than you or I will get 🤷

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well considering they have so much wealth, they can just build their Shangri la on top of Mount Everest or 50 miles below earth, and continue their existence, I'd say indefinitely.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Do they have indefinite food stores? Stock values aren’t going to mean much then.

I’m pretty sure that’s why Zuckerberg is trying to own that whole Hawaiian island. He’s still going to need help farming it.

[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Once there's no governments to make stuff like pesky anti-slavery laws I'm sure he'll find a way to justify whatever cruelty pleases him.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Well there's ones that are golfing all the time and laying in the sun on their yachts.