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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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Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway' (www.theregister.com)
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Shit in one hand, wish in the other ....

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We can't fix the environment, so let's burn it faster.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • Am driving into a wall
  • Turning or breaking in time sounds tricky
  • Might as well accelerate, maybe car will take off and fly over wall?
  • Woops, I died!
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's worse. Rather imagine:

  • Driving down a road that gets a little hotter every meter
  • Suggesting to speed up, because it's not a comfortable temperature anymore, but already a bit hot, so we might as well get lethal temperatures quicker instead of stopping as long as it is still survivable

Remember: climate change is no wall, it's gradual. Stopping at any point is better than at any later point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

At least it will be over faster.