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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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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This implies the existence of rich sharks. Lots of gold teeth I’d guess.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Rich great white sharks, always keeping down the common shark folk like the shovel nose and the hammer head. Honourable mention to the grey nurse shark.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

The American Sportfishing Association, the American Fisheries Society, and others rightly upset about sharks’ indefensible habit of consuming their usual source of protein, complain “shark depredation is clearly detrimental to anglers and predated fish that would otherwise be released.” They point out all that illicit predation “creates an unnatural food source for sharks.”

The sharks would argue fish are, in fact, their entirely natural food source, but if it comes to a choice between those toothy behemoths and a $230 billion industry, the sharks lose.

Shades of wolf reintroduction lol