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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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Few have heard about Biden's climate policies, even those who care most about issue — CBS News poll (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Where in my original comment am I "tearing down" Biden or anyone else? I was addressing the premise of the article, which is "few have heard about Biden's climate policies, even those who care most about issue." My point is that if enough were being done to address the climate crisis, everyone would have heard about it because it would be impactful and revolutionary enough to be impossible to not know about. There is no subtle or incremental way to divert us from our current trajectory toward disaster.