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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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Hundreds Are Said to Resign From NOAA | resignations came a day after a wave of firings at the agency, a world center of climate research. (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People are gonna die because of this. With no one to monitor the weather situations all around the country, especially severe weather, the results aren't gonna be pretty...

[โ€“] Carrolade 7 points 1 day ago

It's become necessary. If the important preventative work we do is devalued, then the only solution is to allow the most severe problems to reappear so a new generation can directly experience life without those mitigation measures. Since they won't listen to anyone without directly experiencing something themselves, then direct experience simply becomes necessary.