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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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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Its the big reset. All those who voted Republican just waiting to be able to afford a house...meanwhile getting layer off. They don't realize that if there are 5 people an 4 houses then 1 goes without a house no matter what. The solution is not to burn down the other 4 houses or to layoff the other 4 people so they call all fight to stay in their home. The solution is to build more homes! Plain and simple. And migrants can help!

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.

There are plenty of entire ghost towns they can move into for free right now, but nobody will because the housing needs to be near the jobs.

Some of those units are being renovated, some are in the process of being sold or leased, some are being lived in but the owners are on vacation. The latter is especially true for summer homes, which are empty most of the year but wouldn't be useful to homeless people because they're nowhere near the jobs - that's the point of a holiday home!

Seriously, if it were just homes then you can get something really basic for $20k. The real problem is the land and the permission to build.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Let's see this alternative knowledge be handled by chief turd and his Nazi committee.