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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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Why Is the Sea So Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. (www.newyorker.com)
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[โ€“] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's changing faster than we predicted. But it is following the same trends that our models have predicted. Either way it's alarming that we are all just business as usual. If the ocean ecosystem collapses, we're in serious trouble. And it will wreck absolute havoc on our current weather patterns.

[โ€“] 667@lemmy.radio 29 points 8 months ago

And it will wreck absolute havoc on our current weather patterns

It already has.

Record rain and snow in some regions, record drought in others; stronger hurricanes and typhoons. Japanese blossoms coming weeks earlier despite a millennia of records indicating it should come later.

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