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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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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I read this this is the voice of Butthead. To which Beavis would reply "Heh, heh, yes, we need more FIRE!"

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah all that "quantitative objective science" liberal BS

/s

Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago

Perhaps this is what the great filter is. Any species that's intelligent, but isn't a hivemind; dies out via the stupidity of the collective -- sure, you can have accumulated knowledge, but if half (being extremely generous in our case) of your entire species is made up of drooling fucking morons that will actively drag the rest of you down, what good is it?

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ban rulers, speedometers, fuel gauges and pressure sensors! Cook meat on a gut feeling! Destroy all cups! Long dresses for all so we can't see feet! YAAARGH!

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies ... except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, if the Democrats weren't a fucking joke of a controlled opposition, they'd be running on total rollback: declare a state of emergency and remove and detain every single Trump appointee, repeal every single executive order, reverse every single item of legislation, revoke every grant, cancel every contract signed during the Trump administration. Then ban any Trump appointee from ever holding office again, blacklist every recipient of a federal contract awarded for the first time under Trump, shut down any "nonproit" that served as a fascist front organization, and revoke the corporate charter of any corporation involved in corrupt lobbying.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 158 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn't been absolute dog shit decision?

[–] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 103 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 5 days ago

Not enough :(

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[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 days ago

Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

Need to reframe this:

"The satellites measure success of our roaring industry! The higher values, the better."

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 103 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:

“NO.”

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago

The same thing the Trump administration does every time a judge tells them to stop doing something

[–] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who's been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!

Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.

[–] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I'd argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE'RE #1!!! WOOOO

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.

The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow's Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Two factors, probably:

  • America has never had a war on our soil, a real bona-fide war anyway. Smaller town or city-sized disputes that got whitewashed and omitted from history, of course. I don't think we fully comprehend what is necessary to protect our freedom? Not apologist here either, just...that is partly why. Look at how much we constantly boast about WWII even though we just showed up late, well-rested with a bunch of guns, after almost turning Fascist ourselves.
  • In America: You protest, you riot, you lose your job because you don't have enough time off available to drive 2500 miles, or the reason isn't valid based on made up rules by your employer. Then you lose your health insurance because you have no job. Then you lose your home because you can't pay the mortgage (or more these days, rent), your car on a 5 year loan is repo'd. So now your family is homeless without transportation or medical care and you're basically dead at that point.

They set the US up to make failure->death the easy fast default option unless you're a proper peasant working the fiefdom.

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[–] MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we don't test for CO2, then no-one can complain that we have high levels of it taps forehead - that's big, beautiful brain thinking right there.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Same thing he did with Covid and the jobs guy last week

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

This is some "Don't Look Up" type shit. Can't happen if you don't acknowledge it.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 95 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.

And it's not new either: this started on day one of Trump's "presidency", and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.

Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I guess as an American I'm counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)

[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't trust Americans to fix their own problems.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah because it turns out they can't aim worth a damn.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 3 points 3 days ago

I will never understand why that dipstick didn't just spend some more time at a range. So much so that I'm starting to believe that it was a false flag.

Like, really, you try to assassinate someone under secret service protection -- arguably making them one of the most difficult people to assassinate -- and you don't even put in a few weekends of range time? You don't even zero your optic properly? You get as far as using a rangefinder and figuring out the distance to your target ahead of time, but you don't bother zeroing your optic. Really? Make it make sense to me.

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 72 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like a diversion seeing that Trump is in the Epstein files.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Nah, this seems in line with Project 2025 goals.

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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is why I don’t care about MAGAts. They are enemies of the human species and we should all be preparing to over throw these people when they try stealing the next election.

I am walking 12 miles a day at time just to get my millennial bones in shape. Pushing almost 300lbs on the bench and curling over 145lbs for sets. Get ready people. We need to defend this world.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I bought a shotgun, and once a month aim to do a gunnery drill for 150 shells. It is exhausting and expensive, but should be a good benchmark for the results of my swimming exercises: About an hour and a half of water weights, walking, and swimming. Probably another 20 minutes in the steam and hot rooms. Figure I need enough strength and endurance to patrol and wield a rifle.

If there is a 2nd American Civil War, the good guys will need infantry, and I intend to be part of the ranks. I won't excel, but at least it frees up skilled people to hack, drone, or spy on the MAGATs.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.

[–] keyhoh@piefed.social 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)

NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.

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[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He does anything to make the Epsein circus go away

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[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Maybe they can fake this somewhat convincingly, since Trump and his cabinet are a bunch of fucking retards.

[–] jerryh100@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Just relabel the satellites as methanedione detector and good for the plants for big beautiful grasses and they are not going to check back

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It's the only explanation that makes sense.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago

Honestly, I WOULD prefer him to be some kind of alien super agent. It is a lot less depressing than the alternative.

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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sell it to the ESA, if it isn't a cover-up.

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[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago

literally trying to cook us now

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 24 points 5 days ago

Who would've thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦‍♂️

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago

Don't look up, people.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Distraction.
He's on the Epstein list and wants it to be buried under all his other bullshit.

Ah employing the same 500iq strategy as they did during Covid.. if no numbers are reported, then there must be no climate change!

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