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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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Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy shit that's a busy "day one" man. I wonder if he'll be able to do it? Will he be able keep his promises?

[–] FatLegTed@piefed.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey Americans! If you vote him in, you deserve everything crappy that happens to you.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately the rest of the world doesn't, yet still has to suffer it. Right when we need to be doing everything we can to save the planet, this guy will deliberately accelerate its destruction out of sheer pettiness.

And the majority of the USA still doesn't like him or want him, even if he wins the election.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fucking idiot...