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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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How Could the Weather Service Change Under Trump? President Trump tangled with its forecasters during his first term. As he slashes government spending, many wonder what that means for weather data. (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Predictive modeling ๐Ÿ“‰

Sharpie sales ๐Ÿ“ˆ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

A party that wasn't just a grift to enrich Jen O'Malley Dillon would HANG the other party for having a weird boner for private weather data that would make all our lives worse... Sadly we live in a duopoly system where one party now exists to enrich millionaire PR executives while the other remakes society unimpeded.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This was part of a long play by big money to make everyone pay for all weather information: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Look outside. Is it raining? Then it is raining. It is snowing, then it is snowing. Is it dark? Likely night, wait for light.

[โ€“] adarza 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock

my grampa had one of these. it didn't work too well, though. it was inside

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Fantastic! I thought I was paraphrasing something!

Few think to check in weather indoors!