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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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From his remote cabin in the once snowier hinterlands above Gothic, billy barr tracks decades of warming, snow-starved winters

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is named billy barr

Tracks atmospheric conditions

Okay simulation writers maybe try a little harder you hacks

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Could have been named tommy torr

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is the man's name not capitalised anywhere in the article?

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

says barr, who writes his name in lowercase letters “just because I’m not that important.”

It seems the author is replicating his personal style/preference.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Read over that in the article, thanks!

[–] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I see it just the same as spelling someone's name correctly. It's their name, they get to say how its written.