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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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The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports | Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (www.theatlantic.com)
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NOAA also collects and analyzes key climate data

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually it's just because there's rich people who are profiting off of weather reporting apps. NOAA is actually banned from advertising their reports. And they still have a sizeable portion of the market because it's just straight up a better service. So the next big windfall is to kill the government's public reports altogether and make the private apps the only place you can find them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Until big oil/coal/assholes pay the private "news" to tell people that climate change doesn't actually exist because everyone in the world is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah that's 100 percent part of it. But the push over the line for modern mainstream conservatives is watching the government do something the private sector could profit from. That's literally the line they've said they wanted between public and private sector ever since I was old enough to pay attention to politics in the 90's. The climate change thing is why the radicals care and why it's a run at the entirety of NOAA instead of just the NWS.