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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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The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I. | How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy? (www.newyorker.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just cache the common questions.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You mean: two hard things - cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of the two hard things in distributed systems:

  • 2: Exactly-once delivery
  • 1: Guaranteed order
  • 2: Exactly-once delivery
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's a good thing that Google has a massive pre-existing business about caching and updating search responses then. The naming things side of their business could probably use some more work though.