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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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Arizona bill would make it a felony to change the climate or weather | the bill will not apply to anyone burning greenhouse gases (www.kjzz.org)
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[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How is this good?

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Paying billionaires' companies to spray aerosols to block the sun while continuing business as usual is an arrogant hubristic folly. The unintended consequences of which we cannot know.

These states are admittedly worried about chemtrails first, idk about that but geo engineering is very real.

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago

I don't disagree with you, but it also seems absurd to prevent deployment of mitigation strategies while simultaniously ingoring, maybe even encouraging, CO2 emissions. Hence my joke that they're aliens.