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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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Wisconsin records first-ever February tornado, record warmth (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tornadoes are scary as shit and they don’t care about your political beliefs. I don’t wish them on anybody.

To the people making political statements to try to discount this obvious omen, your arguments are getting stupider and stupider.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I mean, maybe we can wish them on the oil tycoons and other ultra rich who are bribing politicians to let them destroy the environment? Like, when they are in their private jets perhaps?