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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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Experts Are Fighting Over Whether to Treat Heat Waves Like Hurricanes | There’s a growing push to improve public risk awareness by giving heat waves names, just like hurricanes. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Top news: The Exxon-Moble Conflagration of Souls shows no signs of letting up temperatures soar as per usual.

[–] lechatron 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suggest we name them after the executives rather than the corporations.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think we keep the company names to make it more digestible for the not terminally online. And use executive names as the sub titles.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, like this... “Our top story tonight, the Chevron/Mike Wirth heatwave, was responsible for 10 more deaths yesterday."

How do we get this started? If we can erroneously associate a VP candidate with intimate furniture acts, then this must be possible.

[–] lechatron 3 points 1 month ago

I like it.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

“Our top story tonight, the Shell Arctic EZ-Bake heatwave, now in its third week, shows no signs of letting up.”

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hehe, I love where this is going. Name and shame, folks, name and shame.

PS: https://carbonmajors.org/Entities has a list of the largest emitters (I don't think this list is full historical emissions, just current)

Get naming, folks.

e.g. Hurricane Aramco, Firestorm Gazprom, Heatwave BP, proudly sponsored by...BP

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Relevant meme :P https://slrpnk.net/post/12165327