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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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With Donald Trump victory, here are his energy and climate positions (www.ciphernews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I may have to remove myself from the internet for a while. Every time I pull myself back together I remember another reason why this is soul shattering and sink into a puddle

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I love these sweet naive summer children worrying about Trump's climate policies

Did everyone forget this group literally calls democrats terrorists, threatened to kill the opposition, and said he wants to be a dictator?

Yeah, climate is THE most important subject, you'd think, but this is trump, so there are actually bigger issues at hand