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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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US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it’s climate change (apnews.com)
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[–] nexusband 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You do realize, the classification of having or being in an ice age is basically North- and Southpole are covered in ice/snow? We have not left the ice age.

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry I was speaking colloquially. I should have said glacial period.