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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 Era of Super-Wild Weather Is Already Here | Extreme floods, wildfires, droughts and heat have become more widespread and more volatile than any time since record keeping began. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

Hottest heatwave in my area since 1985 and our power went out for 24 hours. Still waiting to hear if there has been any deaths from the heat.

[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Climate change is watching crazy storm videos until you're the one recording on your phone.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thought much the same! I'm in NW Florida, and high up, as far as Florida goes high.

Storm the other day turned black, like 8:30 at night black, solar lights came on.

Grew up in Oklahoma, seen some thunder boomers and twisty clouds, no worries. But that one got me thinking, "A tornado could simply shred this house and I lose it all." And my wife was driving in it with a whopping 2-years driving experience. My heart was jumping for 10-minutes. Wife is from the Philippines, no stranger to wild weather. She was scared shitless.

Been here 18-years or so. Never been this hot so soon, and so consistently. Only fun activities involve being on top or under water.