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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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'Battle plan': How the US far right would dismantle climate programs (www.eenews.net)
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[โ€“] interolivary@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Conservatives will be the end of modern industrial society as we know it. And once things get bad enough I have absolutely no doubt they will blame everything that goes wrong on "leftists" (ie. anyone left of the Strasserites), right-wing terrorism will escalate and half the people will actually either outright support them or at least accept it

[โ€“] blivet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conservative is a misnomer, really. They don't want to conserve anything. They are trying as hard as they can to wreck it all.

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