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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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‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Made me cry says person seen smiling in photo

That's horrible though, that's such a drastic difference

[–] pacmondo 14 points 3 months ago

I mean they had to take the photo first to do the comparison, unless they were intending to make the comparison beforehand and had the other photo ready already

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