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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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Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not going to laugh at you. I like having discussions with people that see things differently than myself.

I definitely agree that Trump is a fifth columnist as he'll work for whoever pays him well or who can give him more power. He doesn't give two shits about the US.

My entire point is I don't think he does it to destroy stuff or to be evil. He does things purely based on what he perceives can benefit him. Often those things won't actually benefit him, but he's not that smart so he'll do it anyway.

The epstein scandal is a good example. I doubt most of the people who partook in the sex with underage girls was thinking "let me destroy as much as I can of this young girls life. They just see a pretty young girl they'd like to fuck and they don't care about the consequences.

Generally I think a lot of our conspiracy theories tend to make things more complicated than they are. Most of the time, evil is being done because someone wants more money, power or sex.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're exactly right, it's money, power, and sex. I never meant to portray this as cartoonish malevolence or some kind of profound evil - only the banal sort enacted by the world's most disappointing sorts of men, unimaginative, greedy, cruel, and immature. They have forever been humanity's cross to bear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

And probably will be our cross to bear forever.

It's the ironic thing about power. Generally the people who end up in power are the ones seeking it and they're generally the people you least want to lead you.