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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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[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 29 points 1 year ago

And this horrible story of uprooting not only your life but your entire community and its history to flee the rising tide is going to be one of the better stories. These islands are "lucky" to be part of a nation that is based on a continent and has room it can move these people to.

There are many entirely island countries that will have to evacuate to other countries. Maybe some other countries will offer some of them somewhere to go, but I guarantee it won't be enough. And it's going to accelerate. And it's going to be happening at the same time some continental nations in the equatorial region will be evacuating north due to extreme heat or other extreme weather.

Scientists have been warning this was coming for as long as they've been warning about climate change. And it's here. It's starting now.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are 60 or so million people in the low lying Bangladesh flood plain that will be needing somewhere to move to. They already suffer from regular flooding and heat waves and it will not take much of a rise in sea water levels to make the flooding permanent.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

We're at the climate refuges part now aren't we

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Glad the country is being proactive, and they're being relocated just a stone's throw away.

Still, this is an ominous story. I hope new place doesn't stay lifeless.