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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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Why Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average | The wildfires sweeping France and Spain this week are the largest blazes either country has faced in modern history. (www.vox.com)
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[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The article doesn't actually address it but it is likely because the gulf stream is breaking down.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 52 minutes ago

A big part of it is just that it's land and in the northeen hemisphere. Land warms a lot faster than the sea surface, and the northern polar regions warm a lot faster than elsewhere due to ice-albedo feedback

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Weather forecast for today (underlined: felt temperature) :

[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 hours ago

That is such a bad article or at least a bad title. No real information is given as to why Europe is heating up fast, only 'geography plays a role' and 'with more sulfur pollution it might be cooler'.

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What I find most interesting about this, is that it undermines the whataboutism. It's just not a relevant argument anymore that the USA, China, India etc. are not doing their part (according to cherry-picked metrics), when we'll suffer the most.

Yeah, it would be great, if everyone could pull along, but we'll have to minimize damages here either way.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

China is doing their part tho. Their coal usage is still mind bogging, but theh are by far the biggest investors in solar and wind, and the reason that solar is so cheap.

And the US, altho slower, js also moving in the renewable direction, not because they are better, bht because they are cheaper. Even during all of trumps presidencies renewables have outpaced fossil.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Only because of strategic reserves of oil are not in china, so it's not altruistic but hell, it's a win.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

I expect to see that kind of image in Australia, not France