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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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US judge halts government effort to monitor crypto mining energy use | Federal judge in Texas says new requirement would cause ‘irreparable injury’ to industry amid surging electricity usage (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ie: "no you can't shut down crypto miners for pointless ecological destruction, I'm making great money off their wasteful power usage"

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This isn't even an effort to shut them down; just report the harm they do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Documenting the harm is one of the first steps to ending it...

"stop these atrocities!' "what atrocities? You've no evidence what's happening is bad."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

But that might lead to eventually maybe doing somethinginvestors!

Think of the investers!