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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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'Drill, baby, drill': Trump’s Project 2025 would gut all U.S climate policy (www.msnbc.com)
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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That this is even a possibility means we are soooo fucked.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

When haven’t we been fucked? This world has always and will always be a shit show for poor people.

[–] midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Trump coulda been a villain on Captain Planet.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

At the same time they want to ban climate friendly index funds.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

They've already got more 'little people' than they need