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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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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] exohuman@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We need nuclear power stations all along the coast converting sea water into fresh water.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And a string of nuclear power stations to pump the water where it needs to be...

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And small nuclear power generators to power all the maintenance cars and trucks.

[–] tgirod@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Just to be sure this is sarcasm, right ?

[–] toothpicks@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

And then we can pour the nuclear waste back into the sea! Just kidding 😂 I'm not anti-nuclear