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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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Opinion: clueless voters risk returning Donald Trump to the White House (www.energymonitor.ai)
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Any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5˚C rests on Joe Biden being elected to a second term. Voters need an accurate accounting of Biden’s climate record ahead of the November 2024 election.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Any chance

Gotta disagree, we could for example elect someone who is an actual leftist and won’t drop build back better’s agenda because of some senate parliamentarian nonsense, or who won’t hand Joe Manchin a new gas pipeline during record heatwaves.

But yeah sure, Biden is our only hope 🙄

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"But we have to pick someone more moderate so we can compromise with the Republicans!"

Fuck no we don't. If they field their most extreme and we field our most moderate only one thing happens. I yearn for a future where Bernie was elected instead and even he's too damn old for this shit.

[–] Backspacecentury@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I yearn for a past where Al Gore won the election in 2000.

Or perhaps, one where the republicans didn't steal it (legitimately, not like Trump's claims) is more accurate, I suppose.

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