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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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El Niño has ended. Here’s what that means for a streak of record heat. The La Niña pattern is expected next, which might slow global heating but supercharge Atlantic hurricane season. (wapo.st)
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The Washington Post recently started asking for an email address in order to access free articles. You can make up any string which starts with a letter, put @gmail.com at the end, and give them that; they don't check that you have access to the email account.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

It really depends on how much you want to encourage engagement on a post. Ever since forever people have complained that folks in the comments clearly didn't read the article, so when comments complain about a paywall you can A) do what OP did and describe the multiple steps each individual reader can take to access the article or B) link to archive when you make the post in the first place. Commenters complaining of a "paywall" are usually remarking on easy/immediate accessibility, not on whether it's free or not.