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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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'Battle plan': How the US far right would dismantle climate programs (www.eenews.net)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Conservatives will be the end of modern industrial society as we know it. And once things get bad enough I have absolutely no doubt they will blame everything that goes wrong on "leftists" (ie. anyone left of the Strasserites), right-wing terrorism will escalate and half the people will actually either outright support them or at least accept it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only thing you can really do is to get involved in stopping them. If you're in the US, that means looking up close house and senate races. Pick one or two close to you, and then support Democrats running in them with both volunteer time and money.

Leave a bit on the table for supporting Biden as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm Finnish so I'm lucky in the sense that we have more than two options when picking a political party, and eg. I vote for a democratic socialist party called the Left Alliance.

On the unfortunate flipside half the country is very conservative compared to the rest of the Nordics, and our new government – who got in power by lying ceaselessly about the previous lefist government (first of its kind in almost 20 years if not more) and what exactly led to eg. our healthcare system collapsing (pro tip: it wasn't leftists, but our "fiscal" conservatives cutting funding) – has literal neo-Nazis, and the ones who aren't outright Nazis are so right wing that you wouldn't really know the difference. So bigotry is now the norm (up to and including MPs and ministers having publicly fantasized about murdering leftists, immigrants and/or gay people) and our new Minister of the Environment is a climate change denialist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conservative is a misnomer, really. They don't want to conserve anything. They are trying as hard as they can to wreck it all.