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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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Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn | Regulators extended the life of two of the oldest US reactors in Miami. Millions of people in the area are now vulnerable (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] d00phy 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So my wife has an ex-husband who lives in Texas (by choice - loves it there, owns “let’s go Brandon” stuff). They’ve been divorced long enough that their interactions are cordial. She’s a civil servant, and she mentioned to him that all the attacks on federal workers have her worried about her job. His response to this, and many many things, was, “you’ll be fine.”

All this is to say, I think when conservatives don’t understand or don’t want to think about things, they default to “it’ll be fine.” And it will… Until it isn’t. Then they look for who to blame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then they look for who to blame.

They don't have to look far. There's a line of well-worn scapegoats going out the door and around the block.

[–] d00phy 1 points 1 day ago

I think they have a wheel hidden somewhere of who do we blame today?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Translation: he does not want to hear about it any further.

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