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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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Wildfires Are Getting Weirder. Case in Point: Firenados. Global warming is increasing their intensity. We need to get more creative to fight them. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The article is posted with a gift link, so you should be able to read it instead of guessing.

This particular writer has a history of both calling for a fossil fuels phae-out and dealing with the adverse consequences we've already created

[โ€“] the_post_of_tom_joad 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks, missed that. Ill try again op

The best thing we can do is limit future global heating by curbing greenhouse-gas emissions.

he did it! He said the thing! Ah, i feel a tiny bit better.

For that reason, developers need to stop building in the wildlife-urban interface where these blazes turn deadly and costly. And public officials need to stop subsidizing further disasters by offering relief funds to rebuild in fire zones and artificially suppressing insurance rates, thus preventing the market from pricing people into safer areas.

Hmm, this is his opinion? This is creativity? I don't feel good anymore.

Yeah, I'm right back to "useful idiot" at best (author, not op). There's no creativity here, and nothing for poor people, (most of us) at all. Then again, it's a bloomberg opinion so that's expected.

Thanks op for the link and the post