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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 1 year ago (13 children)

a small number of people voding r instead of d will give the election to trump, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

For sure. But of the people who vote for the greens, many more would have chosen to vote for a Democrat instead.

The Green party could:

  • Run candidates in the Democratic primaries (the DSA has done this to considerable success at the state level)
  • Run candidates in districts where Democrats aren't running
  • Build up power by starting at a local level and winning elections there to create people with a base of supporters who can win in larger and larger areas

But they don't do those things in the US, and instead choose to run candidates where they effectively serve as spoilers

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

they don’t do those things in the US

this is a fucking lie. do you get all your information about the green party from msnbc, or directly from the dnc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are you so mean... just chill out damn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

what did I say that was mean? someone else said I was rude and really don't get it.

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