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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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[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So around my early-April birthday I’m used to chaos.

That’s what spring is like. It’s supposed to be weird.

But it’s gotten so weird.. my lilacs got frostbite, and half of the spring growth died… They budded in early March and then several frosts followed.. because of course they did. That’s spring. But man the plants are confused.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Up here in Canada I murmured to myself "we're fucked" when I kept noticing the geese flying north, then south, then north, all winter.

It's not just the plants.