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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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Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works? Once again Monday night, he claimed that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property.” (wapo.st)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 months ago

Pretty much. It's like listening to two people trying to have a detailed conversation about a book, but one of them didn't read it, and read a review of some other book instead, and the second didn't read anything at all, and is just confabulating.