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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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40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete (slrpnk.net)
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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So overseas shipping rates drop and some of the companies convert their ships to give joy-rides in seas (because cheaper sea travel), while some seamen get to explore avenues like deep sea exploration (which seems to be a really underdeveloped field) and development.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Somehow I’m not seeing your average deck hand transitioning into deep sea exploration.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well, the average deck hand can stay working at the normal ships that are shipping other stuff.
The above average ones can become a deck hand for the newer vehicles for deep sea operations.

Both are probably already paid low enough that corporate can easily pay them while reducing shipping rates at the same time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’m thinking the deep sea exploration pays a bit more than a guy who can hook some cables on a crate.

But wtf do I know…

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

But of course, if the extra exploration rate can be afforded, then so can their salaries.
The only thing that matters is whether there will be someone wanting to do so.