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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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Here’s Where Kamala Harris Stands on Climate: She pursued polluters as attorney general in California and later staked out bold positions as a senator, including sponsorship of the Green New Deal. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] GlendatheGayWitch 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A federal ban on franking would be the only way to stop franking in TX. At least one city passed an ordinance banning franking about 15 years ago and the oil companies went crying to the legislature who tripped over themselves hurrying to ban fracking bans. Same thing happened when Laredo, Austin, and another city were saving over $250K annually in water cleanup after banning single use plastic grocery bags.

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

What did Frank ever do to you?

[–] GlendatheGayWitch 1 points 5 months ago

Dang it, I only caught one of them!