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[–] TransNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

notice that that sharp increase follows 2 events... AI data Centers and literally everything Trump related.

[–] BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015

The massive AI data centers are too new to have an effect yet.

[–] TransNeko@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

that only takes out one event. there is still Trump and the rest of the corporate corruption causing pollution

[–] BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Trump's first term started in 2017. This warming effect first became visible around 2013-2014. As much as i hate that orange menace, this thing was already happening before him. It'll take several years, if not a decade for his actions to show their effect on the climate.

From the article:

Across all of the datasets, the acceleration started to become visible in 2013 or 2014. The researchers describe the broader shift as beginning around 2015, when the evidence became clearer.

Further in the article they point out, that they don't have an explanation yet, but they do mention that the models occasionally show that kind of effect. So it's not entirely unexpected.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I hate data centers as much as the next guy but usually there is a lag time of several years for climate change to link to its causes. We probably haven't seen the worse of the climate related impacts for up to date AI use yet.

[–] Waphles@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

A sensible and measured reply. That being said, when you see images/videos of all the gas turbines running and the shimmering air from the heat by colossus/stargate/whatever it’s called it’s difficult not to think that it’s doing damage now

[–] TransNeko@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

I'm sure in a few years we will find out they already had a bunch of secret AI data centers already built...