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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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Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels (go.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Datacenter environmental impact is a short-term problem.

In ten years, we'll have significant renewable energy disposable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In ten years, we'll be lucky if all the food is still growing to keep all these people alive. Yes, including you.

People vastly underestimate the scope of what climate change is going to do to us, quite soon.

https://predicament.substack.com/p/what-most-people-dont-understand

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Solar panels are the natural photosynthetic plants turned into technology.

Let's see how things unfold.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Ah yes the natural photosynthic process of mining silica, aluminum and rare earth metals from deep in the earth's crust. Yes solar panels are more efficient than photosynthesis but they still require substantial systems built around them to function - plants not as much.

Still doesn't mean we can't have solar panels but we really shouldn't be ravaging the earth more just to satisfy our excessive energy usage. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in that order.