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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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California dominates U.S. emissions of the pesticide and potent greenhouse gas sulfuryl fluoride (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] huginn@feddit.it 6 points 7 months ago

Just kinda looks like California is the biggest farming state.

The bread basket of America's covered in that shit

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Makes sense considering the Central Valley is one of the world's largest agricultural areas.