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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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White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If it was focused they'd leave the weather forecast alone and only targeted climate change. Instead they cut everything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have two things going on:

  • the historical weather data is what gets used to show past climate and the change we are seeing
  • the founder of AccuWeather thinks he can make more money if government forecasts are less accurate and paid his way into the upper echelon of the Republican Party.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm sure there's a privatisation play going on, but there's no way you can actually make money on providing weather forecasts if you're suddenly going to be needing to put weather stations everywhere. I guess they'll just force the government to keep paying for those and just do the forecasting based on the raw data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The weather channel is actually to blame.

They want to privatize the weather.