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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No. That's too easy and dismissive. It doesn't even realy make sense.
Revenge maybe. But I doubt it.
There's some logical reasoning here. Something that makes sense, even if the goal it's self is senseless.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A friend‘s company will get the contract instead? Of course the vehicles would have ICEs, making his oil company friends happy? The cruelty would just be a bonus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Something like that. But which friend? Which company?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Highest bribe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe Musk wants to make them instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That would make sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Try to get him to settle for hybrid, install small ICE into vehicle, show functionality upon rollout, retune software later to not actually use ICE. Lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are you new? Since when does he make sense?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It all makes sense when you see him as a child. An insecure narcissist, who thinks the world exists for his benefit. So how does this fit into that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes children break things just to break things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even when they do, they're exploring and discovering their ability to effect the world, or how things work. It's not for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, and that's where the child analogy fails. He's not actually a child. He's not learning and exploring the world. Learning is likely one of the things Trump hates the most, because it would imply he doesn't already know the answer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's always a reason, even if it's childish. I'm guessing someone in the petro industry whined in his ear. Or someone whined that he should hate the USPS. Who knows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Did everyone just collectively forget about his efforts to crush USPS? DeJoy? All of it?

Mail-in voting is still a danger to him, and privatising the mail system has been a goal for conservatives for a long time now.