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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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Snow levels in Western US are hitting historic lows after extremely warm December (slrpnk.net)
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https://coyotegulch.blog/2026/01/05/snowpack-news-january-5-2026-an-absolutely-enormous-swath-of-the-western-united-states-just-obliterated-its-record-for-the-warmest-december-period-temperature-records-across-this-entire-half-of/

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

not clicking on a link if you can't figure out the right month dude.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

And just in case you're still scared of links. Heres the graph showing updated information, the line in BLUE is this year.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not the one who can't even read a graph.

But here, just in case you change your mind here's an interactive map with an extra graph that provided the original data for the graph

https://nsidc.org/snow-today/snow-viewer

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

oh wow you get worked up over someone not caring about your post.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

For someone that "doesn't care" you sure do comment a lot.