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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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US Republicans want to plant a trillion trees. Scientists are skeptical. New research casts doubt on the climate strategy pushed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other GOP leaders (www.msn.com)
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[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

....so does this mean the GOP now thinks Climate change is real, then?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 year ago

They're slowly walking from "it's a hoax" to "it's real, but fossil fuels didn't do it" to "we'll only push stuff which isn't sufficient" to "oops"

[–] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

No, they’ll eventually blame the other party if left alone to long. Attempting to gaslight younger generations into believing the GOP was trying to fix it and the left wanted to watch the world burn.