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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 admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory (www.cnn.com)
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If you want to actually try and do something about it, call your rep and your senators — people got the provisions to sell off public land removed, so other changes are possible too

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[–] l_b_i@pawb.social 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

... but the administration would steer it instead towards being more focused on operational weather forecasting and warning responsibilities.

Even for self serving goals and ignoring the future, don't you need accurate climate models to accurately forecast the weather and issue warnings?

[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah, just predict randomly and pocket the funding money !

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

These are the people who think weather forecasters are just guessing right now. Why would they need access to satellites to guess?

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