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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lol you should hear the people in Michigan talk. Some of them are counting on it to help improve our economy. Unfortunately they are ignorant to the tremendous industrial pollution that has happened here for decades. It looks pretty but some towns entire water supply has been poisoned by PFAS or one of our largest oil line leaks and dow chemical has made Midland into a Superfund site if it ever gets cleaned. There is no running from climate change or pollution anymore.