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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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Something startling is happening in the Gulf of Mexico: Its waters are heating up twice as fast as the global oceans, with huge implications for hurricane risk. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Good thing there's a huge, powerful current that carries that heat away and also stops Europe from being frigidly cold while it's at it.

...oh wait.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 points 14 hours ago

At least it will mostly kill people who wanted this silver linings but I liked the gulf of mexico a lot I miss it

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Gulf of whatnow?

I'm not familiar with this

[–] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 8 points 12 hours ago

I think you’re getting downvoted because people don’t recognise sarcasm. They think you’re really thinking it should be called “Gulf of America” meanwhile you’re pointing at the silly fact that a narcissistic pedophile changed the name.