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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] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Further proof he doesn't even know what the word means

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'd be surprised if he could spell his own name at this point.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The EU is capable of resisting Trump pretty well. However many countries are not. That is honesty the real problem here.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Short term, the countries that can’t say no, will say yes. However, they will seek alternative markets for purchase and sale. It damages the relationship for short term gain, all paid by the business and American consumer.

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

Fuck Trump and the horse he rode in on (Musk), but he is doing wonders for UK/EU relations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, he's part of the cabal that pushed for Brexit. One step forward in reaction to two steps back is not to his credit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Obviously nothing is to their credit. But the talk about tariffs is forcing the UK to look towards Europe more than they maybe would have, and a majority of Brexit voters are now in favour of joining the EU's internal market.

It was just a tongue in cheek way of saying that the US' only ally in the world is going to be the soaring Russian economy - even the Brits, who forcefully tied themself to the Mayflower mast, are now looking back to Europe.

In good personal news, a good friend of mine in the UK has landed a really good job in the UK working on the tariffs. I'm very happy for her. Silver linings. :)

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

and long term the higher oil and gas consumption is going to damage the climate even worse...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the most Putin sounding shit I ever read

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

American does generic American thing: "this is just like the foreign bad guys in my TV show!"

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

It's just a bad move and stupid threat. I don't want Russian oil and gas...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

von der Leyen's sycophancy is the most worrying part of the article, even as individual EU countries, German minister quote, suggests resistance.

EU already signed significant O&G long term contracts after Ukraine war. Even as they are reducing NG and coal electricity by 10% this year, and on path for another 10% every next year, longer term supply lock ins is certain to slow that progress in addition to promoting more global/US development.