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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seen this in olive oil prices. It's already happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get yourself the fake olive oil, most of it in stores is anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to fix climate change instead?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even if all emissions stop cold turkey today, it's going to take longer than our lives to restore. I'm sorry, but you're too late for cheap olive oil.

note: stopping carbon emissions now would drastically reduce the harm done tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The olive oil is an example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's depressing that the must vulnerable and exploited will suffer the most, though to see food production will not become catastrophic everywhere was at least a small bit of good news. I can only hope that the areas that will see increased production can increase exports to help stave off famine in the highest impacted areas.