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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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It’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would explain it. Sold to which billionaire?

[–] livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Scientific American was sold to LabX Media Group, which also acquired Discover magazine in 2024.

Layoffs were expected:

From Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr
New: Employees at Scientific American magazine were told this morning that their publication is being sold to LabX Media Group.

There will be layoffs as part of that process, according to a memo sent to staffers: "As part of that transition, LabX has evaluated the organizational structure it believes is necessary to support the business going forward. Unfortunately, this means that not all current employees will be transitioning to the new company."

"It's not been a decision that's taken lightly, and it wasn't certainly an easy decision," a member of the Springer Nature management board (existing parent company) told employees in a meeting this morning.

SciAm staff tried to unionized in April with WGAE (Writers Guild of America East), but it seems that in the end, 15 staff were cut out of around 40, and union busting measures were taken by the new owners

As far as I was able to find, Bob Kafato and Ken Piech are listed as founders. Besides that, a quick search did not come up with too much information on their networth, unfortunately

In addition to LabX, the group includes Lab Manager, The Scientist, Technology Networks, Drug Discovery News, IFLScience, Discover and now Scientific American as far as I could find.