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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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Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks | The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked in campaign (www.eenews.net)
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[โ€“] _bcron_ 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think the sad thing is that if Trump has any hard skills, it's probably reading fine print in contracts to find gaps or flimsy ambiguous wording, so he'll probably just get worked up over the fact that Biden won this battle and go be dumb elsewhere.

It would be funny if he was mega dumb and just cancelled it all but he basically carved out a name for himself by being a weasel so that's unlikely.

Props on Biden for the one finger salute tho lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I disagree that Trump can read. He famously needed all communications reduced to bullet pointed lists.