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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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I Wasn’t Prepared to Be a Climate Refugee | A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Most people won't take climate change or global warming seriously until it directly affects them.

In a sane functioning world, our political leaders should be sounding alarm bells and reigning in big major corporations to try to gain some control over the problem. Because even if we did shut down everything right now and started actively working towards cooling down the planet, it would take a generation or two before everything went back to what it was a hundred years ago.

The biggest effect that most of us will feel in the coming years is mass migration. We'll start seeing people moving around to places where they are unwanted and uninvited, first temporarily and later permanently ... and then we will start seeing how we will all live with global warming.