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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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How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream (www.propublica.org)
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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

Has the author looked around in the last 20 years? Homeownership was driven out of reach a long time ago.

[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Existential threat looming over virtually all species on earth. At the same, newspapers : maybe you won't be able to buy houses like before?

I'll be happy if I will croak before the food shortages get rolling in earnest.

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same. I’m hoping the microplastics take me before I have to starve to death.