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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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Five Major Climate Policies Trump Would Probably Reverse if Elected (www.nytimes.com)
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If Americans want to keep policies we have in place (and do better) it's going to be critical to re-elect Biden and send more and better Democrats to both houses of Congress.

For Americans, that means:

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

1 & 2 Four years is enough time to go through the EPA rule-making process. So Trump will do it to get rid of the rules. He did it before.

  1. Trump isn't just "in the pocket of billionaires" but in the pocket of specific billionaires, who want to get rid of it.

  2. Biden had a bad start, and then took new leases down to near zero after his first year:

  1. Yep.