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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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Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Thunderdonk4444@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Finally… the straw that breaks the camels back. The world will now be FORCED to take action on the climate crisis

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

I know you're joking, but it's going to be something dumb like this that gets deniers to rethink their position. It may be some staple that disappears from shelves, or has to be replaced by an inferior substitute, or made with weird ingredients.

If lite beer had to be made with rice, or it got to $100 a case because of climate change fucking up the wheat crop, it would do more than every science paper in the world.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Lol either that or “Climate Change Resistant Juniper by Monsanto” becomes a thing and makes its way into crazy expensive gin only the super wealthy can afford and they unironically mix it with ice from melting glaciers

https://arcticice.ae/

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago

Shit just got real