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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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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Should been way more drastic in his climate policy way before. All national parks and sea bed sanctuaries are now oil fields. Flee the south. Any chance of stopping the literal rasing tides is now dead. Add in the upcoming trade deals and you better start stock piling food as well. Also anyone under 30 should probably cripple themselves in some way as project 2025 calls for mass conscription, because as we become more isolationist we'll need to invade central and South America countries to feed our people. The US military currently doesn't have the man power to do a large scale invasion so buckle up buckaroo.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Id argue the last few points.

  • You can feed yourselves, but it won't be meat.

  • you do have the manpower.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We've invaded countries for their bananas.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, not a meat.

Did you invade or destabilize a government?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My point is we did that for a none meat. You don't think we'll take over a foreign country in order to turn their land into stock yards, feed lots, and pastures? The majority of conservative Americans get the majority of their calories from meat. Good luck getting people who would turn their own daughters and sisters into brood sows for the wealthy oligarchy, to think foreign brown people have any rights.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 1 points 3 days ago

Technically, instead of bananas it could be feed crops.

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Hello from the southern hemisphere lol