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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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Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading | Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thank goodness it mostly missed the yucatan, my heart goes out to florida tho :(

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, was looking at stats on housing in the Tampa area; most of it is older then the hurricane resistance building codes, and large areas are going to be inundated.

There is going to be a lot of suffering from this one.