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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

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Climate change is now causing more local extinction in temperate regions than the tropics, study shows (phys.org)

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[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

The burden of knowledge is great