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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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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if this opens up opportunities for engineers to design for climate change.... Different way of living. Like t-shirts with built-in cooling and UV reflective systems. Pants with water cooling. Shoes that also work as water pumps. Maybe beds come with flotation devices and LED flashing lights and maybe a pedal powered prop. Roof tops that auto disintegrate when ripped off and include parachutes. Fireproof floatable basements with 50ft of air intake piping if water were to go that high. Maybe retrofit streets with pumps yo get all the water pumped away to California?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

There are ice vests for workers already. Not fun to have to use .