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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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Americans elect a climate change denier (again) (thebulletin.org)
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[–] franklin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What the fuck happened to the education system

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

It was deliberately hampered to produce poorly educated people who are easier to swindle.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Capitalism.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The only motive for education that kids are taught is for their careers and income. Education for fun or self improvement or world improvement is considered a waste of time and looked down on. That's why you get a bunch of economy obsessed fascists voting for an orange turd.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

It was getting in the way of people voting for the most populist person so they got rid of it. It's now replaced with a combination of pavlovian reward system + "stay in line" reminders, so that voters can go for the simplest campaign promise (eg: make america great again), without struggling to understand if the 'how' can actually accomplish the 'what'.