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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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You need to be saving more for emergencies, thanks to climate change (wapo.st)
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Not that most people can afford to save anything in the first place

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

As someone fortunate enough to have a bit of excess income I was saving for an emergency situation. Boy was I lucky I was already doing that when the company literally folded and laid off everyone except 2 engineers and the original founders (~35 people down to 4). It took me a month to get an offer and another couple of weeks to get started at the new place. By that time our entire savings was gone and my partner (who makes nearly minimum wage) was keeping our bills down. I cannot possibly imagine how hard all of that would have been for a household in a less prepared situation or one with children involved