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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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2023 proved that climate change isn't coming — it's here, and things are spiraling out of control | This sizzling year shattered records related to heat, sea ice and more. The future could get hotter (www.salon.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Could get hotter"?! 🤦🏼

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah how dumb are they? WILL get hotter, the word they are looking for is WILL!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The whole thing leading up to the word "could" clearly states that it will. Fuckin' lazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We can all email him @ [email protected] to let him know of the 'could' typo.

It's the least we can do.