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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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[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

I'd say Trump's inability to see the value of partnerships in geo politics and the likelihood of distraction from the Epstein files has turned Greenland into a target for Trump.

[–] standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was always the plan. Warm it up, use the oil down south to make it all melt much faster. Then the rare metals are his. Hopefully Denmark is prepared to protect their land from these nazis.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so it is a petrostate conspiracy between deplorables in russia and the US?

[–] standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it’s whomever the highest bidder is

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, but only in countries who think it will value their land, certainly not Saudi Arabia, which will become uninhabitable.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

I think the plan there is to invest the sovereign wealth fund outside the country, then have the royal family decamp to a more temperate latitude while leaving thr populace to die of exposure

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Turn off the A/C and Saudi Arabia is uninhabitable now, unless you have extraordinaly low expectations of quality of life.

Well, Abha's bearable. But the whole of the Gulf coast, the Najd and the Hijaz, it's either humidity hell or living in a place that's like an ashtray in a toaster oven.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

No, greed, lust for power and pig-ignorance have turned Greenland into a target for Trump.