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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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AI is guzzling gas | Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals. (heated.world)
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Key context here: The Biden Administration is planning to massively ease construction of AI datacenters in its last days

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 days ago

But how else will we get poorly written and inaccurate summaries to replace what used to be good search results?

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's bad, but considering we get bad AI pictures of Chris Christie eating McDonald's, I think it could be worth it.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

This seems counterproductive

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Don’t worry, we just need to pump a year’s worth of the suns full output of energy into the ai, and then it’ll be able to solve climate change for us!