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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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Heat domes and flooding have nearly tripled since the ’50s (penntoday.upenn.edu)
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The paper is here

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If we keep consuming all the trash they make, then we can just make some garbage dams when everything fails prematurely and it will hold the water back and the heat will just help melt all the plastics into a solid mass of crap.

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