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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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Snow levels in Western US are hitting historic lows after extremely warm December (slrpnk.net)
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https://coyotegulch.blog/2026/01/05/snowpack-news-january-5-2026-an-absolutely-enormous-swath-of-the-western-united-states-just-obliterated-its-record-for-the-warmest-december-period-temperature-records-across-this-entire-half-of/

Post got locked (sorry y'all, not sure what I did) but here's the updated original source for the chart data https://nsidc.org/snow-today/snow-viewer

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[โ€“] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the current government's axe man (Im not even saying that rat bastard's name) defunded and shut down every single weather and atmospheric observatory, so that none of the data from the sattelite observatories can be released, not to mention the last set of governments only giving lip service to 'meeting climate agreement goals'

[โ€“] manxu@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

At least they are not releasing fake data like they are doing on the economic front. Imagine sweltering in the March heat (???) and NOAA tell you it's barely 75 and the world is alright!