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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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New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin (www.nytimes.com)
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A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.

These historic changes which happened after the development of agriculture are quite small compared with what we are kicking off by burning fossil fuels.

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[–] tuck182@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The guy in charge was obsessed with a woman, but somehow that made it the woman's fault? That makes no sense, and yet is totally unsurprising.

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That just sounds like a ruler of weak pedigree.