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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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A second Trump term could slow the shift from fossil fuels as climate threats grow (www.npr.org)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If Trump gets a second term then America is truly lost.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Worse. His policies would effectively nuke a lot of the global climate progress we've made and set the world back decades—as if we have the time to waste.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean he would nuke a lot of the world. If he gets a second term, we are done for...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely doubt he would order a nuke strike. There would be far too much economical backlash from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe..... war is extremely profitable to those manufacturing the weapons and material. So long as infrastructure doesn't get destroyed.

I could see drumpf "accidentally" giving Ukraine a nuke "for deterrent", and then when Putin nukes and Ukraine retaliates...... yeah not good, but I could see that as a real possibility due to Drumpfs idiocy

[–] stembolts 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My passport has a few years on it.. I've started to work on foreign worker permits in the case he is re-elected so I can start setting up a life outside the US.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

unfortunately, trump is not a cause of the problem - he is just a symptom of bigger underlying problem in society, which is manifesting itself all over the world. so your passport is really not a solution, at least not long term one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, but you see mice don't just stay where they are when the ship is sinking. They flee to the higher ground, even though the entire ship is doomed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could it? Could it possibly do that? Are you sure?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

He could also die of a heart attack a few minutes after assuming office, so yeah, it's "could"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We’ve got more issues than surviving until we can die from climate change if he wins.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

But in c/climate, we're here to talk about the climate consequences.