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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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NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument (www.nasa.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Damn that line following i95 south from NYC towards Philly is crazy. Cars suck.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Next headline prediction: house republicans move to completely defund NASA by the end of the year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I knew it! They were all a bunch of woke gender communists!

We should ban more books.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's going on with the LA area, it's was black over the water and then it dissipated.

[–] GarytheSnail 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The caption on the video mentions areas of missing data indicate cloud cover. So I suspect that's what that was

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

Would missing data show up as black though? That's the worst level and if it's that, they might want to reconsider it. I'm wondering if it's smog that gets blown out to sea.

[–] GarytheSnail 2 points 2 years ago

It looks black but I think it's gray?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

"peopleproblems there's no way NYC was so bad to trigger constant breathing problems for a week."

They still won't belive me after this either