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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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Hurricaine Helene Aftermath - Appalachian State University, North Carolina (slrpnk.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Helene ended up around the southern tip of Illinois and Indiana so uh, yeah, everything from the Gulf to one state south of the Great lakes is hurricane territory now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well I guess we can't go to universities in the eastern half of the US. And not in the middle either (tornadoes), and not in the west either (wildfires). Should we all move to Wyoming? This Lemming seems to know what's best for us 340 million Americans. Surely we can all fit in Wyoming. It'll be a glorious utopia!