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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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In Wisconsin Senate Race, Voters Will Pick Between Two Candidates With Widely Differing Climate Views (insideclimatenews.org)
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[โ€“] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, I agree that clean energy credits are a form of corporate welfare. We should have clean energy mandates, and businesses should build the cost of not polluting into the cost of doing business. If you cannot do business without being clean, then you shouldn't be permitted to do business anymore.

Yes, that means that some businesses will close. Yes, that means people will lose their jobs. Yes, that means goods and services will become more expensive.

The economy will recover. It always does. Rich people won't be as rich. That's good news. Poor people will struggle, and government should help them. That's the point of a government, to provide services to its people.

The climate is not as resilient as the economy. Life doesn't always find a way. Sometimes, everything just dies, and that's the thing we want to avoid. Everything dying, slowly and painfully. Natural disasters, extreme temperatures, famine, drought, and the associated violence borne of actual scarcity.

So vote for Baldwin, but continue to push forward.

[โ€“] mearce@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I really like your perspective, I don't think I've seen things laid out in the way that you have in your comment. Do you have any resources/books that you recommend?