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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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Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response (www.nytimes.com)
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As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 6 points 2 days ago

I think his administration has a 2 prong approach to their attack on weather science:

  1. It's an attack on all science that they look to replace with "thoughts and prayers"
  2. If you suppress the science showing how you're making everyone less safe and putting millions of lives at risk, that's good "damage control". Then you double down on "owning the libs" at the same time making crazy corrupt deals with the fossil fuel industry.
[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Disaster preparedness is socialism!