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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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Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reminder not to donate to the American Red Cross for hurricane relief.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, kind of a bold assertion to throw out without proof against a highly rated international charity

Charity Navigator 4-star 99%

Guidestar Platinum

Charity Watch A-

Looks like there were some issues with transparency 5-10 years ago (Google "Pro Publica Red Cross"), but I'm not finding any recent follow-ups and they're scoring high marks for transparency now. They pretty consistently spend ~90% of every dollar donated on programs and are generally well-respected.

Are they a perfect charity? Probably not. But are they doing good? Absolutely.

If you want to donate money elsewhere, by all means go for it. Doctors Without Borders, and World Central Kitchen are great international charities, and local food banks in impacted communities can make your dollar go further than just about anyone else.

But also remember money isn't the only donation the Red Cross accepts - as with any major disaster, blood will be in short supply, and there is unequivocally no better network for blood donations than the Red Cross.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

They use a little trick called "lying" to keep their metrics.

Their CEO, Gail McGovern, a failed CEO from AT&T, has more than tripled her own salary while cutting employee benefits and is currently overseeing the absolute worst blood shortage in history.

People just don't trust them anymore.

For some reason.