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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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[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you take a look at their west coast... They should be very worried. There's a few hundred million people that live just above the sea level now. Any rise is going to nearly eliminate a bunch of cities.

This is very short sighted

[–] dillekant 1 points 9 months ago

That's ok they'll just immigrate to colder places.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Hmm your country is just a bit north of the equator. I'm sure this can't possibly backfire on them.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Damn and it’s still less than China’s building.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago
[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Bold move considering they’re the location that is expected be uninhabitable in a century