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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] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too late, fortunately - the wheels of commerce are already in motion, by 2025 the mass market charger + EV rollout will be in full swing (and, itself, sending a lot of money towards grid + generation improvements) and beyond the power of Republicans to stop.

Not to mention, of course, that Republicans in states with a lot of clean energy jobs - and there are a ton of those - are going to be under tremendous pressure to oppose anything that would take them away, even if they voted against them originally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Those jobs aren't stopping them yet — it takes not just having people with jobs, but having the political donor class dependent on decarbonization.