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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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Hurricane Milton Might Have Been a Category 2 Storm Without Climate Change (www.bloomberg.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

without climate change affecting the environment and atmosphere, the weather patterns and climate would be totally different. 'milton' would not have existed at all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Kinda sorta; you'd still have some probability of a storm developing, so what they're doing is comparing simulated weather weather in worlds with and without the added greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and asking "how likely is this to happen" and seeing that there are differences between the two situations.

Specific methodology for different parts of the rapid-attribution study are linked from here