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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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As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe them scientists knew a thing or two about this climate thing...

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Im thinking state governments will just move in and provide an insurance fund.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's insurance of "last resort", just because a state has an insurance fund, doesn't mean the costs are anything people can pay.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Or that it's financially viable. A fire in the wrong place will wipe out the one in California, and force the state to force all the for-profit insurers to kick in money to rescue it, which will in turn result in sharply higher rates for everybody.