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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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What happens when solar panels die? (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The word die can mean end of life, but has an alternative regular meaning: stopped working.

We use it all the time, for example "I don't know what happened, I was driving along and the engine just died." "Due to bad weather my power died." "I wanted to game, but my controller died."

Words can have different meaning and the verb die has a lot of meanings. And there is also a noun die, which is also in common use.

died; dying ˈdī-iŋ

intransitive verb

1: to pass from physical life : EXPIRE died at the age of 56 die young died from his injuries a dying tree

2a: to pass out of existence : CEASE their anger died at these words

2b: to disappear or subside gradually often used with away, down, or out the storm died down

3a: SINK, LANGUISH dying from fatigue

3b: to long keenly or desperately dying to go

3c: to be overwhelmed by emotion die of embarrassment

4a: to cease functioning : STOP the motor died

4b: to end in failure the bill died in committee

5: to become indifferent die to worldly things