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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 denial a unifying theme of Trump’s cabinet picks, experts say | Loyalists selected for important roles have offered staunch support to fossil fuels and downplayed climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] hotelbravo722 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, but the insurance companies are not. Lets see who wins this game.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The corporations will. We'll pay higher energy costs and higher insurance costs too, and the climate crisis will keep on accelerating.

[–] hotelbravo722 1 points 2 weeks ago

They think they will "win" because they assume its all a zero-sum game. They will lose IMO because the rest of us don't think life is zero-sum, corpo or not still gotta put a roof over my head and still got to put food on the table.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Loyalists."

Call them what they really are: stooges.