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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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The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] rimu@piefed.social 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I fondly remember the days when rising sea levels, "sometime in 2100 or whenever" was the main climate-related thing. That was nice. Back then, the idea of tipping points was the realm of wild-eyed doomers that no one took seriously. Heat domes? Wildfires? Ocean death? Mass migration? Just science fiction.

Ahh, good times.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now we have BBC printing stuff like this:

“It’s going to be like Mad Max.” “There will be no humanity. There will be no charity. There will be no fairness...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977r51e1z0o

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very interesting article. I am very curious about the project they mentioned in Niger, if anyone has more information.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

100%. Would also like to find out more.