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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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At least eight people die in record-breaking heatwave across Europe (www.aljazeera.com)
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[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago

as some one who lived and worked outdoors in tropical north Austalia for 45 years, before moving much closer to the south pole, i left when i needed AC as it was getting too hot and humad.

I used to visit social centres like the library and use their AC and WiFi or just read a book on the real killer, hot days. or go swimming :)

Good home insulation makes a difference but can only hold the worst of it off.

As to making it worse, the same thing with cars, plane flights etc and not voting Greens to eneact policy change. Just have to look around to see most people are making it worse with enthusiasm every day, they just feel no guilt :)