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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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US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts (www.bloomberg.com)
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Per the author:

Also in jeopardy: Engineering + IT support for N-Wave, NOAA's internet + network provider. N-Wave transmits weather forecasting data. Internal email warns of "significant service disruptions” if contracts aren't extended.

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Since this was published, there has apparently been a bit of a reprieve as word got out about how bad this would be

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

That's part of it, but they're destroying everything in the US government which benefits people over billionaires, and this is just another piece of that.