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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 European Commission will encourage remote working and public transport subsidies to cut fossil fuel use, as countries grapple with the energy price shock from the war in the Middle East. (www.ft.com)
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[–] riskable@programming.dev 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remote work is great all around. Who knew‽

Oh wait, fucking everyone.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But think of the managers.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It reminds me of a company where I recently applied for a job. I asked about work from home and they replied: "yes, we have one day a week, it's Wednesday." I almost laughed. They don't understand anything about working from home.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People mandating in-office without a very good reason (vibes based "good for collaboration" don't count) are climate criminals and should be treated accordingly.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Charge the CEOs in a Nuremburg-style genocide trial, complete with the Nuremburg-style punishments for things like mass murder.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

COVID proved that remote work was feasible for a sizeable part of the population. How about we continue to promote it being normal, rather than following the Luddite managers that demand in-person control?

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile in germany....