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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even conservative business owners want engineers from Berkeley and doctors from Harvard. It’s no coincidence that the strongest economies are all blue states with great universities. The only red states that can compete are petro-states. Conservatism is bad for the economy.

I think that the teleportation thought experiment shouldn’t be reassuring to a conservative. Statistically, you’ll end up in rural Alaska, given its massive surface area. A lot of rural red areas have sky high unemployment and low wages. If you actually go to where the jobs are, getting a bad conservative education puts you at a disadvantage.

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

yeah, if you adjusted the randomness to land you in the front door of a person you're more likely to be on the doorstep of a liberal's home than a conservative's. liberals get less of a vote because land gets a vote in America