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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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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why? Did something change with the climate?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

No no no, you see, God is just angry at the queers.

/s

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We are likely in the exponential portion of a sigmoid curve.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

There was another post I saw today that we have now gone 12 months straight hitting the 1.5C above mean threshold, so, we failed.

I've been hooting and hollering that rivers in Alaska are running orange because the permafrost is thawing, and everyone IRL just acts like I am a madman.

Fucking oh well I guess.