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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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Portland [Oregon] leaders look to city’s cash-rich climate fund to help keep Trail Blazers in town (www.oregonlive.com)
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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds like that plan is going nowhere from other council members. Going beyond climate related though, how about Portland not spend $600 million it doesn’t have to ‘maybe’ sway the new owner from moving the team. City financed stadiums are never worth the cost, especially given moda’s location. Dude can move them down to texas for their fourth team and they can be the Austin Anywhos if it’s gonna cost that much money to keep them.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It is among the most out of date major arenas. There's a reason a lot of major music acts skip Portland.

They'll figure out a way to fund this project eventually. Seems like if they could make it the most green-friendly arena on the planet, they could somehow justify the use of those funds. But that might make it more expensive.