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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's Big Stick Might be...Kind of Puny | Can the US actually force the rest of the world to make the same energy mistake? (billmckibben.substack.com)
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[โ€“] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think all the US can do is get left behind while the rest of the world moves on to alternative energy sources.

And we'll have Trump and the fossil fuel pimps who have bribed him to thank for that.

[โ€“] Donk@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

(not) Soon enough he will be dead and then we will see. I do hope you're wrong, and the US will have the chance do better soon. There's a handful of geriatrics with no future burning things down to finance their comfortable senescence. They're not immune to the fun new diseases and unrest spawned by their greed, no matter how much they like to think they are.