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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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Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse | Seven Democrats voted to confirm this man. Seven! (heated.world)
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[โ€“] transgendervegan666@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

democrats get pissed when we say both sides are the same and then just bend over backwards to anything the trump regime asks of them.

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

That's not really a fair characterization of the situation.

All but seven Democrats did the right thing here by voting against the nominee. The vote also took place at the beginning of February, before the scale and scope of public anger over Trump's seizure of power became apparent.