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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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Scientists Warn Vampire Bats May Soon Spread Into The Southern US (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Rabies on the rise. That's a climate change issue I didn't see coming.

[–] Bubonic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There are parts of the arctic that have previously been rabies free thanks to our low year round temperatures that are now seeing cases of rabies pop up. As temperatures go up rabies is going to just spread further and further north. Similar deal with heartworm.

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah that makes sense. I forgot rabies virus really hates the cold.