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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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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dimming your phone screen's brightness saves a ton more energy than cutting off wifi, especially the newer the phone is.

So, in a way, they're not wrong about "screen time" just wrong about almost everything else.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your phone barely uses any power anyway. Trying to save power by reducing phone usage is saving a penny while burning a dime.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sure, it's not a lot of power, but how is not using your phone burning a dime to save a penny?

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You make a misplaced effort. There are better ways to sacrifice less to achieve more.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but again these aren't exclusive. Dimming your phone screen takes 3 seconds of tap-and-drag on most versions of android and iOS, it's hardly an effort, let alone a sacrifice. In no way does it prevent you from doing more/other things as well.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

It impairs readability. Also phones auto dim.