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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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Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance | The big bet on artificial intelligence has turned tech billionaires from vocal climate advocates into Trump toadies. (newrepublic.com)
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[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Going all in on oil and AI is short-sighted to put it mildly.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

This article drawing a parallel to the 2000s tech crash is suggested below, and I can only hope that that is how it will go. Because of course AI and AGI will stick around, but at some point finance peuple will notice that they need to monetize all of it and of course software/hardware is going to become more energy-efficient too.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Is it money? I bet it's money.