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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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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you so much for your first-hand account.

Unfortunately, the makers of this article have already gotten their clicks, and so do not care about such "facts" as might have made the point of their having shared this story with us meaningless and therefore deprived them of such clicks from a cheap easily-written story.:-( (assuming they even bothered to write it at all rather than simply farm it out to AI)

Which can make conservatives correct when they claim that "climate change isn't real" - and point to articles like this to prove their case, which since this article may indeed be easily disprovable, emboldens them further. Which paves the way towards Trump winning the White House again.:-(

I wanted to see truthful stories about climate change from this community. I suppose technically the concept that "desert areas might expand in the future" is the truth but... not quite what I had in mind:-D. At the very least, I suspected what you confirmed: that it was mere fear-provoking BS - which under some conditions might unironically work well, but not being as unsubstantiated like this one is?