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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 Planetary Crisis Awaits the Next President (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] CheapFrottage@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 6 months ago

And, in all fairness, every other person and living organism on the planet, pretty much.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Next election is pretty much a choice between outright war, cullings, purges, genocides and ... not that. Literally the only way DJT could ever come close to delivering on half his promises, or survive the aftermath, is by eliminating enough friend and foe alike that the remainder are either die-hards or distracted by pillaging the dead and basking in their own "good fortune".

Do I trust Biden~~Blinken~~ to do any better? More like I trust him to at least pretend to give me enough plausible deniabity that I can maybe sleep at night, but mass starvations and refugees getting turned away from those safe/sustainable places that should welcome them are all but unavoidable, and already on-going, if he doesn't pull his head out of his ass(and Gaza is arguably experiencing everything I listed up-front). I would prefer a quick death vs starvation and disease, but I'm not about making that choice for others, nor allowing it to be made for me.

Edit: I keep forgetting that Blinken is actually the Secretary of State, not just a prejorative we use for Biden's refusal to see the obvious regarding genocide, student loans, and, until recently, climate change.

[–] Nativeridge@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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