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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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Experts Are Fighting Over Whether to Treat Heat Waves Like Hurricanes | There’s a growing push to improve public risk awareness by giving heat waves names, just like hurricanes. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suggest we name them after the executives rather than the corporations.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think we keep the company names to make it more digestible for the not terminally online. And use executive names as the sub titles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah, like this... “Our top story tonight, the Chevron/Mike Wirth heatwave, was responsible for 10 more deaths yesterday."

How do we get this started? If we can erroneously associate a VP candidate with intimate furniture acts, then this must be possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I like it.