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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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I did not have Zimbabwean tariff rate hyperinflation on my 2025 bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's only for technologies that might slow our destruction of the planet. Of course, it goes along with making it as difficult as possible to run any renewable energy tech company domestically, because it's not about boosting US industry but about venting anger at a world you don't control or understand.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Uh, around three and a half percent or three thousand five houndred percent?

Confused european here.

Edit: guess 3500%

Another China-based firm, Trina Solar, faces tariffs of 375% for the products it makes in Thailand.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

3,521%. Don't forget the absurd false precision to make you think this was a number that came about from Very Serious Math.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Our economists determined that eleventy kajillion percent is an appropriate amount according to mathiness and politicolologism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Their confusion comes from the fact that some countries use the comma like the USA uses the decimal point. So, to be clear, it's 3521%.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah the us and the uk use the full stop as a decimal point, and the comma to separate orders of value if that make sense, so you could also write the figure as 3521%.

The figure written as 3,5% in say France would be written 3.5% in the us and the uk.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

So more solar panels for developing countries....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sixteen bajillion gazillion percent

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Making smuggling a respectable career choice, when?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Time for everyone else to get some cheap solar panels.