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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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A year at sea: The reality of living on a permanent cruise (www.cnn.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50125188

๐ŸŒŽ Humanity is truly living its best ClimateCatch22 dream:

The hotter > The more ACs > The more Electricity consumption > The hotter

โ›ต Meanwhile the rich take advantage of the rising water levels, MOVING onto superyachts & forever cruiseships (for one last journey).

โ›ฝ Burning through a cool $1 million of diesel per refueling.

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[โ€“] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago

Climate collapse is happening in front of our eyes, and these bozos have nothing better to doโ€ฆ sigh.

[โ€“] BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are also sailing hipies on 5- 10k boats out there trying to live cheap, living their dreams (and trying to avoid orcas)

[โ€“] Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

This is my dream

[โ€“] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Depressingly this is probably a way to ensure better treatment than any care home would give you and may not even cost much more. Have known someone do some cruising in retirement, but the ship was wind powered and made of wood.

[โ€“] Escape13@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Insurance companies must love geriatric forever cruise ships in bad weather.

are you involved in a cruise ship accident? call our lawyers today

[โ€“] madeindex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You are probably right, plus you get community with similar interests

[โ€“] SlippiHUD@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Breaking News: the most selfish people you know, inventing new ways to be selfish.

[โ€“] bloogoose@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Old people fucking suck.