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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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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So let me get this straight, the bill acknowledges climate change is bad, GHG emissions cause climate change, but then targets everything but the root cause of the problem? Really amazing work they're doing out there in Arizona.

[–] hoppygarden@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

it took a while until people agreed the earth is not flat. different century, different level of media influence. but just saying.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow,that's remarkably stupid

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Outlawing geo engineering is not stupid. Castigating doing so is because they did not pick a fight with oil they would lose badly 10x over is stupid.

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm telling you guys, Republicans are aliens from another world that prefer a warmer Earth.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You say that yet you are here mocking one of the only good things they have done because it was presented to you in a way that oh they didn't pick a fight with oil companies to do something they have no power to do. Is this argument you guys are castigating them for here?

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 17 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 10 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.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

Exactly, it's always projection

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

How does that even work? The only way I know to change the weather is with the Clear Skies shout — in Skyrim (a video game).

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Pump sulfur dioxide, aerosols, into the upper atmosphere.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People have been experimenting with cloud seeding for decades, but more likely this is another BS bill targeting contrails to feed the paranoid agenda.

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 2 points 6 days ago

guts of a century really, since the 40s (I just read this on wikipedia right now)

In GTA III, you could type in "I LOVE SCOTLAND" to change the weather to pouring rain

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The spell Weather Control in D&D worked in 3.0/3.5

(Also a game)

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

What about planting trees to offset carbon? When does an artificial forest start to count as Geo engineering?

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

What about Jewish space lasers? All of their representatives are in Israel’s pocket so I’m sure they’ll be exempt

[–] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Soooo....

We're letting K-jizz tell us what's going on?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Its a local NPR station that airs jazz and some news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJZZ_(FM)

[–] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 1 points 5 days ago

I actually knew that, I was just going for the cheap joke. Low hanging fruit, and all that.

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Cannot change it at all? To improve it or make it worse?