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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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People complaining about the Acropolis closure are so entitled (lemmy.world)
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I live in an area where there are many climate change deniers. Recently, the city of Athens has shut down the Acropolis until further notice, because of an unprecedented heat wave fueled by anthropogenic climate change. And unfortunately, I'm hearing many of those people formulating nonsense batshit conspiracy theories. Sheesh, I'll bet many of them weren't even set on visiting Greece once in their lifetimes... yet they're still ragging on and on.

Incidentally, many of them also happen to be the exact same people as those who downplayed the severity of COVID, and went around unmasked whining about restrictions and vaccine passports, like toddlers. Gee... I sure wonder why?

Going to the Acropolis in extreme heat is dangerous and irresponsible, and this is a totally justified measure to keep Athens safe.

Well, guess what? We're going to have much more of this, and around the world, too! I'm glad the Athens government has a brain, and I only wish ours would. Serves us right for destroying the planet, I guess. There's gonna be a lot less snow everywhere, and it's going to be one hot summer for the rest of our lives.

Seriously, why the hell are we still letting these idiots have microphones? We need to take this seriously. We have only one planet to live on.

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