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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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Stop drinking bottled water: Experts warn of health and climate impacts (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This may be one of the health effects they're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iirc i read that this is a mistaken fact. I wish I had saved the article but saw it recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've just done a quick search, and the only articles I'm seeing are reporting on 2 different studies, one about the olfactory bulb and one about brains, nothing about either being disproven.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I shared this information with my inlaws once as a 'fun fact' and they haven't come back to my house since.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what makes them think your house is the problem

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Likely because it's where i share most of my fun-facts