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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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Social media posts by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones received 408 million views โ€“ more than emergency services and mainstream media combined.

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[โ€“] PleaseLetMeOut@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Can confirm, I have 2 separate family members spewing this idiocy during visits. First it was that hurricane that shit on Georgia, Tennessee, etc. so "They" could shutdown a lithium mine or something (the people in the area want the mine, so that doesn't even make sense). It also lead to them to falling for all weather modification conspiracies on Facebook and YouTube. So now it's the floods out west... because "The Dems" want to make Texas look bad or something? I don't even know anymore.

Also, dry ice. They seem to think dry ice allows you to steer storms and will show me very obvious fake videos where people are dumping it into the water themselves, then recording and pretending they caught The Man doing it. All of the ice blocks are still square btw, like it was just dumped into the water. They still fall for it.