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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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More than half of US faces worst drought in decades, says expert (phys.org)
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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup, it's real. Have a place - some distance from where I live (in the northeast US) that I go to and get spring water.

Went last autumn and lo, the spring was dry. First time EVER that I've seen that, and it's a place that I've known of, and gone to, to get water for well over 40 years.

Fuuuuuck.

Shit's starting to bite now and hopefullty the El Nino pattern this year will sort some of it and send us rain. We need it.