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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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‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Era of global boiling sounds very reassuring. When are our policy makers going to actually start acting?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think we will see much in serious action until lots of people start to die and even then some will still drag their feet.

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

I really hope this isn't the case but I have a feeling you might be right. Why don't we act preemptively instead of firefight (literally in this case) after the fact.

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

When we're at 'vaporization' I guess