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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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What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century | Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[โ€“] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

"may" ... if only, but it feels selfish getting hung-up on the US, when we know all-too-well most of the developing world is going to fare even worse.

[โ€“] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Many people are not aware what it means that we are now witnessing profound changes of geological dimensions - like so many glaciers disappearing, or big rivers almost falling dry - within years of human lifetime.