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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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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Could" lol... It's already impacting rice yields; probably many others.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Inflation is a euphemism for corporate fuckery.

Also, cover for the already well under way destruction of food chains and supply lines.

We are already at DEFCON fucked.

[–] silence7 2 points 1 year ago

Timing is tough to have narrow certainty on

[–] Aksamit 12 points 1 year ago
[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2050?! Fucking liars. The 2030's is more accurate.

[–] silence7 0 points 1 year ago

That's relatively unlikely still.

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

s/2050/like 2 years, maybe 5-10 at absolute most/

I mean I have no particular expertise but it definitely seems like things are accelerating

[–] silence7 2 points 1 year ago

There could be some local disaster where you are tomorrow, but it's unlikely. This is similar: it's low-probabilty in any given year

[–] zoe@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

famine is man-made.