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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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AI boom to double data centre power use by 2030, IEA warns (www.rfi.fr)
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[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If only we could tax fossil fuels. It wound kill two birds with one stone. Fix the environment and reduce all the AI being added into everything.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just removing the subsidies would make a big difference

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Yah I don't understand how these are multi billion dollar companies and they are still getting subsidies tax breaks handouts whatever form the governments of the world. Like WTF.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago

It’s not a tax we need, because that just hits the people. We need a need an operation fine and a price cap to prevent them from passing the buck, so to speak. That way it won’t be profitable and they will reinvest someplace else… hopefully solar or just not energy at all.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Just enforce laws around stealing others work and regurgitative artificial idiots wouldn’t even exist to be a problem cause they could not exist.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m surprised it’s only doubling it