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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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Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer (www.splinter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Of all the valid reasons to hate elon for, this is not one of them. The emissions from the entire world's satellite re-entries are basically nothing on an atmospheric scale.

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

The article cite a peer-reviewed scientific paper paper which indicate satellites reentry has a significant effect.

Have you published (or know of) a better research paper that show this is incorrect?

the population of reentering satellites in 2022 caused a 29.5% increase of aluminum in the atmosphere above the natural level.

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As aluminum oxide nanoparticles may remain in the atmosphere for decades, they can cause significant ozone depletion.

Source: Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega-Constellations

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

There article is about a paper showing that there's a significant increase in aluminum oxide in the atmosphere. The particulates from that are part of how the small amounts of chlorine in the atmosphere are able to destroy ozone.