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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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[โ€“] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They just dangle the AGI carrot to justify their wanton destruction of everything.

Bored tech bros are in a "war" building datacenters until someone "loses" and to the victors go the spoils.

Meanwhile, they're shredding the rest of the economy so they will have no customers to buy their products when the "war" is over.

Really hope this bubble pops soon.

[โ€“] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

From a finance angle I don't see how they can make it past like 2026, maybe 2027 before creditors demand their due and the cards fall. It's not only financed by leveraged investments, but a ton of debt. LLMs aren't going to morph into AGI by throwing graphics cards at the problem.