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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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Corn to Power Airplanes? Biden Administration Sets a High Bar (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] MtnPoo@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So we're going to give food to planes instead of hungry people. does this guy know it's an election year?

[–] silence7 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We're actually giving about half the US corn crop to cars already. The other half goes to animals, with a rounding error going to people.

I also recommend reading the article: the policy makes it difficult to get a subsidy to convert corn into jet-a fuel

[–] MtnPoo@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

I saw the part about it being hard to get the subsidy. Sounds like it's happening anyway.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

Actually we give corn to animals you can then later eat. If we actually start eating what we instead inefficently feed into animal farming, we could feed twice as many people as exist and still have left overs for creating fuels.