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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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The gutting of US weather forecasting abilities could prove very deadly (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] pezhore 12 points 5 months ago

Last night, a tornado narrowly missed my house by less than half a mile. And hours before, crazy winds downed power lines causing brush fires that damaged houses about 3/4 of a mile to the south.

Weather is getting worse and less predictable, but sure, let's fucking cut funding for the people who send out warnings for this shit.

(It's worth knowing that although I live in a purplish city, Missouri is very red and voted for trump the past three elections. This will hurt trump voters too.)