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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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Global Temperatures Shattered Records in January: Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which usually bring cooler temperatures (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The top 20 hottest years ever are from the last 22 years. Can you believe that? What a crazy coincidence. I bet those crazy scientists will try to say that means something but it snowed this winter where I live so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I've started directly questioning the intelligence of people who can't understand how ocean and air currents work to stabilize polar vortices and disruption of those currents causes disruption of super cold air.

And I have started getting a bit condescending while saying this as if any third grader should understand it so a fully grown adult not understanding it clearly shows some sort of mental deficiency that didn't get caught earlier in life.

It probably means I'm a bad person but I feel a little satisfaction at their increased anger over just refuting with facts. Because you're explaining in what sounds like it should be simple ways why they are dumb and the usually slightly narcissistic minds I deal with like this simply cannot handle that.

My mother in law's rebuttal, after a few days and in text form, was "I DO KNOW all about the science I just don't believe it's happening"

And at that point, she has admitted she no longer believes reality.

You can say "I don't believe it's raining" all you want, but that water hitting your face won't be any less wet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Those scientist are paid by Soros, obviously.