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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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Climate crisis ignored by Republicans as Trump vows to ‘drill, baby, drill’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's probably just mad we have record setting production under Biden....

The United States is producing about 13.2 million barrels of crude oil per day. That is millions of gallons more than is coming out of Saudi Arabia or Russia. It is more oil than was being produced even at its peak during the pro-fossil-fuels administration of former president Donald Trump, when production was 13 million barrels a day in November 2019.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/31/us-oil-production-has-hit-record-under-biden-he-hardly-mentions-it/

Personally, whichever is president next, I think we'll unfortunately keep breaking this record.

No matter who is president, they're both trying to keep the fossil fuel industries happy. And neither take climate change seriously.

They're both 80 years old and just don't understand how big of an issue it is.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

They’re both 80 years old and just don’t understand how big of an issue it is.

Ramaswamay and Halley aren't nearly 80 years old, though, and they also support drilling with wild abandon as if our natural resources are unlimited.