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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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Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] BeezKnuts 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is about 500 yards from my house. Fortunately a lot of it has receded but the road is destroyed. What isn't covered in inches of mud, is just gone. Idk how I'm supposed to get into town. All of the roads leading into any of the towns near me are closed.

The sun is now out and there genuinely isn't a single cloud in the sky for as far as I can see. The ground around my house doesn't even look wet anymore, though the lawn is completely saturated still.

My brother found a dead fish in the parking lot where he works which isn't anywhere near a source of water. That's how bad the flooding is in some places. I'm up near Newport and we don't even have it anywhere near as bad as Barre or Johnson.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sadly, the voices of the ones trying to stem off these climate issues are drowned out by the science-deniers and corporations screaming that there's nothing to worry about. There's too many people that still think this is all a hoax and that winter continuing to come each year is a sign that the climate is fine. There's just enough of us being loud enough to drown out those ignorant voices and force our government to do the right thing.