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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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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago

I'll add to that that it will be exacerbated by the fact that many locales have not built homes to a spec that includes climate extremes (if this is mentioned in the article, I can't read past the paywall).

So not only will many structures have a harder time keeping up, but they weren't designed to withstand the extremes in the first place (e.g. cheap windows, weak or no insulation, etc.).