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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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President Trump and Republicans in Congress are eliminating federal incentives to buy electric vehicles, but carmakers need to keep selling and investing in them.

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So cute, how the title would say "Cannot Stop", but for the fact it would make the paper's owners' and advertisers' billionaire overlords piss their daipers.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until he makes them illegal.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

He can only make them illegal in the USA . Progress will happen nonetheless. USA is just choosing to run backwards in a sprint race