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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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Why Is the Sea So Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. (www.newyorker.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Well, we can pretty much gather as much. A decade ago, two decades ago, the warning was “if we don’t act, in 100 years the world will be in trouble,” and then it went, “if we don’t act fast, we will see catastrophic effects within the next generation” to “this is happening at an alarming rate.”

And in case no one’s noticed, we’ve barely slowed down emissions, if at all. Greenwashing has had a profound effect and people think we’re doing a decent job, on our way to “net zero,” but we are digging a much deeper hole, really fuckin fast.