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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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Are temperatures this summer hotter than scientists expected? Climate models project rapid future warming – and have generally captured the extremes of Summer 2023 (www.theclimatebrink.com)
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[–] Cybermass 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The dominos are beginning to fall, they thought we had until 2030, but what they didn't know is we just have until 2030

[–] dovah 6 points 2 years ago

they thought we had until 2030, but what they didn't know is we just have until 2030

This reads like a two sentence horror.