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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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Wildfire Smoke Is Coming for the US Again. We’re Not Ready. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

Washington is already planning for the drought conditions this year due to a serious lack of snow pack. It's going to be dry as hell.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I'm surprised there's still enough left to burn after last year.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ugh. right. likely when it gets warm enough to open the windows I won't be able to.

[–] KryptonNerd 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess people who can afford to, and haven't already, should probably invest in air filters now in preparation

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

We actually bought two last year (bedroom and living room) but you still don't want to open the windows when its bad.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

cries in californian