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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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Yes, there was global warming in prehistoric times. But nothing in millions of years compares with what we see today (www.latimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CO~2~ levels never were like that since humans existed. We don't know how suitable a planet transformed this way is for human life.

There is exactly one planet in the known universe which can host humans, and we might be in the process of changing that. An experiment without backup.