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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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Two Valuable Satellites Are in ‘Perfect Health.’ They May Be Scrapped. | The Trump administration wants to switch off and possibly destroy the climate-monitoring technology. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

For people who may not know, even a small satellite (not counting starlink's disposable suitcase ones) usually takes 5-10 YEARS to even build at the very minimum. If we were to also include the development, testing, and launch; the time could easily double that.

So, what he's doing is much, much worse; he's trying to create a legacy of destruction that would take multiple generations to even get back to where we were before he got his mealy hands on everything.