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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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Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures: “It’s like an omen of the future.” (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] lostinasea 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Scientists have been freaking out over this (and climate change in general) for a while now. The problem is that not enough people are listening. Worse is some are actively fighting against them and any solutions.

Luckily though the world will be fine in the end. Humanity on the other hand...not so much

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

day of the rope coming

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

downvotes only convince me of your class collaborationist naïvete

don't worry, this infantile disorder will pass for most of you as capitalism spirals into further attrocities beyond our imagination