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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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Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
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Thought it was relevant given energy use is part of the problem.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Hope this idiotic dotcom bouble 2.0 dies fast. Its just hurting the world all together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do they even try to connect the dots and point to the need to develop PV energy in that article?

It seems to me they are carefully avoiding the probable solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Or we could just…abandon this concept of machine learning until we have the bigger issues handled. Like, the planet trying to shake us off like fleas, for instance.