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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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Sure, Biden’s climate policy could be better, but consider what a second Trump term would be like (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you're not serious enough about the problem to break away from civil politics and lesser evilism,then we're doomed. At some point people need to start breaking things.

I agree, although my concept of breaking things is working outside the system to undermine it and render it irrelevant, and to build something better now in spite of it.

~~I don't know if voting or not voting for dems even matters at this point~~, because the worse their opponents get the more they use that as an excuse not to try. I don't think they even care to win, so I don't think threatening not to vote for them works.

In about a decade the dem approach shifted from "hope & change" to "get a load of this idiot". I think they're basically saying the quiet part loud now, that electoral politics doesn't represent regular people so it doesn't have to appeal to them.

(Edit because libs are gonna get mad that I said voting isn't important. Here libs: vote as far left as you realistically can, which in the US means voting for Biden. I vote for my preferred enemy and giving the Dems more opportunities to disappoint people will radicalise them further left. Are you happy? I said vote for Biden. No of course you're not happy because I didn't say to vote for the reasons you like even though that literally doesn't matter which is the point of forcing people to vote strategically.)