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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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Plants can’t absorb as much CO2 as climate models predicted (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] unknown@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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Yup.

We're rapidly running out of arable land and fresh water and we've breached the planetary boundary for ocean acidification so the oxygen producing phytoplankton won't be surviving much longer now either (those little guys produce 50 to 80% of the breathable oxygen in our atmosphere).

Oh and ww3: the resource wars, have officially been kicked up a notch now that the USA has invaded Venezuela too. Fun times.

Lmao, we're beyond fucked. No food, water, or breathable air, and that's without taking the rapid warming or ww3 into account. Billions of people will die in the next 50 years as our planet becomes uninhabitable to life as we know it.