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Originally Posted by DrinkenBRZ

That errantly assumes those issues are caused by man rather than natural phenomena like, oh I don’t know, solar cycles. Or maybe irresponsible utilization of resources related to your identified issues. Food for clean ICE fuel, lawns and swimming pools in historically desert dominated geographies along with excessive population density. Focusing on such bogus climate issues takes away from perpetuating equality and, in fact, does exactly the opposite further driving wedges between the west and the have not populations not to mention the wealthy and poor populations of the west.

It is caused by man. Unfortunately, the issues related to global warming will require resources that may or may not negatively impact developing countries, yet the projections for the potential damage to food and water resources, infrastructure damage and air quality from fires from global warming will be far worse, and what’s more, the need for innovation and action to transform energy networks and infrastructure has the potential to spur economic growth and create high quality jobs, so it is not all doom and gloom.

On the causal structure between CO2 and global temperature

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4761980/

The values in Table 1 clearly confirm that the total greenhouse gases (GHG), especially the CO2, are the main drivers of the changing global surface air temperature. The radiative forcing caused by aerosols and aerosol-cloud interactions is also important, but significantly smaller (0.2 vs. 0.3 nat/ut). Neither solar irradiance nor volcanic forcing contributes in a significant manner to the long-term GMTA evolution. This is true in spite of short episodes of volcanic forcing that are clearly visible in the time series as they are of insufficient strength to make significant long-term contributions to the GMTA dynamics.

Using the IF concept we were able to confirm the inherent one-way causality between human activities and global warming, as during the last 150 years the increasing anthropogenic radiative forcing is driving the increasing global temperature, a result that cannot be inferred from traditional time delayed correlation or ordinary least square regression analysis. Natural forcing (solar forcing and volcanic activities) contributes only marginally to the global temperature dynamics during the last 150 years. Human influence, especially via CO2 radiative forcing, has been detected to be significant since about the 1960s. This provides an independent statistical confirmation of the results from process based modelling studies.