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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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Visualization of 100 years of June land temperature anomalies (fediscience.org)
submitted 1 year ago by rusfairfax@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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Keeps getting redder i.e. hotter. Like we didn’t know that already.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I've been assured by Donald Trump that climate change is merely a liberal conspiracy

That thought comforted me greatly as I was roasting in my house when it hit 103F outside earlier this afternoon

[–] lxpw@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Are we the lobsters?

[–] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Great! Now white spots are the real anomalies!