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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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Climate change will bring death for unexpected reasons | Heat death and cataclysmic storms are only the start of our worries (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I remember, it's been nearly a decade already, when the shocking realization hit me that climate change wasn't just something that was going to happen, like 100 or even 20 years in the future, but it had already happened, and people simply were refusing to acknowledge it.

since the turn of the millennium, deaths from climate change have already exceeded those from all World Health Organization global-health emergencies other than Covid-19 combined. “Vanishingly few of these deaths will have been recognized by the victims’ families, or acknowledged by national governments, as the consequence of climate change,”

But there is currently no vaccine for climate change.:-(

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has happened, and is happening. The changes aren't over. The changes will continue happening at an accelerated pace.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

And as this article suggests, also in unexpected ways.

We are not all going to make it:-|.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

COVID-19 may still have been a result of climate change, and climate change increases the likelihood of new pandemics.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

I think that one was inevitable, due to humans encroaching upon the bats territory and how fast it mutates - people were warning about it being inevitable over a decade ago. But yeah, climate change could bring about the next one. (Link)