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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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Study: Climate migration will leave the elderly behind (grist.org)
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[–] Five@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 months ago

The aged are also the primary victims of heatwaves.

Petroleum society - euthanasia with extra steps.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They made their bed, now sleep in it.

The rest of us aren't far behind them.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago

The rich countries, were the elder are actually responsible can built proper dykes and so forth to deal with it or they can just move. It is going to be the poor elderly who will suffer and most of them really did nothing wrong.