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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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[–] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's fair enough. It was only invented in 1742 so that's barely enough time to start getting used to it.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Moved away from the states about half a decade ago to the UK. Was excited to drop imperial units, but then I found out the English still measure body weight in rocks. That one took a hogshead of wind out of my sails.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

You know that someplace has a problem with obesity when they start breaking out the geologic scales.