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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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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1359360

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Similarly, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told an energy conference in March: "The Trump administration will treat climate change for what it is, a global physical phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world."

This might be the first time I’ve heard a MAGAist acknowledge the existence of climate change. I’m not looking forward to the new narrative.

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

I saved a comment a while ago that put it perfectly. The switch from "climate change is a hoax" to "climate change is real but we've created the perfect solution" will happen so fast your head will spin.