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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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Sunak to drop heat pump targets in fresh retreat from Net Zero (www.ft.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In a parade of terrible PMs Sunak somehow still finds a way to compete for the top spot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The UK is really giving the US a run for its money on who can run the worse government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wonder if using first-past-the-post has something to do with that. Seems like a pretty terrible system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

While first past the post doesn't help, I think the other problem is that Bojo and his cronies got over 43% of the popular vote.

It's almost like there is just an insane amount of people who want the world to burn.