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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Will we have to pay extra for the Sharpies, too?

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

I just got a weather alert for severe storms. If they get rid of NOAA does that mean that I've just got to hope for the best at all times?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That's how we solve the homeless crisis and the unemployment?....

So are there any hurricanes coming this month? Dunno. Oh well!

Hurricane comes and erases let's say 10% of Texas and Florida. Then we just ship the homeless there to rebuild, and live permanently until another hurricane 🌀.

Yeah great idea! And imagine the economical impact if everyone was employed!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

they want to do to themselves what they have been doing to the third world

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sweet fucking christ, what the fuck is wrong with these cunts?! Fucking why?!?!?

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

Because Barry Myers is CEO of AccuWeather, and he paid good money to be Director of NOAA for 4 years

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

They still mad that they didn't change their hurricane report when Trump redrew it with a Sharpie.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well who needs to be told about climate change when we can see the word burning... Also its obvious that they literally want to start a dictatorship now.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Basically do what you did to healthcare to the entire country

The US will next year be a third world banana Republic dictatorship

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, worse than that, at least banana republics actually have useful exports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, exactly like that. The US has lots of useful exports, and as with banana Republics, almost all the money goes to a very limited set of rich and powerful

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