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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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How Meta Nuked A Climate Story, And What It Means For Democracy (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meta’s decision to limit political content goes back to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, when it was revealed that personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users had been collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, and used for political advertising. So damaging was that scandal that the firm changed the name of its holding company from Facebook to Meta.

I’mma email the writer, cuz that ain’t right (right?)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Renaming because of the scandal is not correct.. It happened 5 years later and they did it for the same reason as Google/Alphabet, they want multiple independent sub-companies and the then-current name of the parent company was also the name of the product. They now have separate sub-companies Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Meta Quest, and others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks, feel more confident about my email to the journalist last night. Kind of curious how that mistake happened…