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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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North Carolina Was Set Up for Disaster | The climate deck is so stacked now that even places that seem safe are witnessing dangerous impacts. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I'm wondering how common that's been before.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

They usually die down before or shortly after landfall. But the oceans are warmer now giving the hurricanes enery to go go go go

[–] shani66@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago

Iirc, powerful hurricanes are pretty normal, but the changing climate is letting them stay around longer

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

The people who dismissed climate change as just sea levels rising laughed as they lived in the mountains. Now the mountains are flooding and it's too late to change. Reap what was sown.