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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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Water at tip of Florida hits hot tub level and may have set world record for warmest seawater (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are we doing to the planet?! 😭😭😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@Pandantic

Doing what we do best-milking it for any profit as can with no regard for the future

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I know it's easy to have schadenfreude at Florida, but what is happening to the sea life there and all around the southern coast due to climate change truly is a damn shame. One of the joys of growing up on the gulf coast was seeing all the sea life we were surrounded by. Sadly the life around us might disappear faster than our coastlines.