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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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Trump and Republicans Cannot Stop Electric Vehicles, Experts Say (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can’t stop them, but you can make it much more expensive and kick the transition decades into the future

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For 4% of the world population maybe.

When eventually the remaining 96% of the global market for cars choose electric cars, Trump and co. can drill all the oil they want and force the American population to drive shitty cars, but they're going to have to supply those shitty cars and that shitty oil. It's worthless to anyone else.

I mean, the Americans might as well have voted for an Amish president forcing people to use horse carriages. The rest of the world has no reason to follow suit.