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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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Trump cuts to climate satellites will make weather prediction harder, scientists say (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The Trump administration is scrapping satellite observations of Earth that officials say go beyond the essential task of predicting the weather.

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One is free floating and the other is attached to the international space station. The original team hopes to find funding to save the ISS attached monitor. A more detailed article below

https://apnews.com/article/trump-nasa-climate-satellites-34f533a1d28db954e30b2101d0ae186c