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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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"We need to start moving people and key infrastructure away from our coasts," warns climate scientist (www.independent.ie)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Laughs in Midwestern.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You laugh now, but wait until the entire population of New York and Florida are knocking at your door. That is, the population that doesn't see the writing on the wall and leave for Colorado first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Please as if we haven't been dealing with an influx from the coast driving up our prices for the last decade already.