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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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Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN (www.unccd.int)
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[–] Agent641 2 points 2 days ago

We are gonna need so much brawndo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I must live in the other quarter

[–] lath 3 points 2 days ago

I think we might want to revisit wild theories such as our ancestors actually being martians who genocided the dinos in order to move over from their dying planet. They're starting to make much more sense lately...