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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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The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working? | tldr: no (www.npr.org)
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Sltldr: "They're just throwing away money, planting trees in the desert for them to die."

The Great Green Wall is a top down, big government intervention that has little to no local buy-in and isn't sustainable without continued big government funding.

Not surprisingly, the funding has mostly dried up, and so has the land.

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[–] Oofnik@kbin.earth 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not the main point at all of this article, but: "The price tag was also massive: the United Nations estimated that $33 billion would be needed to complete the Wall." Still less than the US spent on the Iran War in less than a month.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

America is always complaining about being broke but always finds the money for war.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 1 points 11 hours ago

They’re like a drug addict, always broke but somehow finding the money anyway.

[–] Dr_Del_Fuego@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Musk can cover that with some shit from his pocket. Do it and send him an invoice