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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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AOC Says Climate Movement Must Become 'Too Big and Too Radical to Ignore' (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] flossdaily 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No... Don't you see?

No matter how centrist or moderate democratic candidate is, the Republicans call them communist, socialist pedophiles.

They've painted themselves into a corner. We could nominate a full-on Marxist flag-burner, and they would have nothing left to say about them that they didn't already say about Obama and Biden.

[–] OrteilGenou 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let's be fair, Nancy P is about as much a back slapping old school politician as you can get, and AOC fell in line to her leadership. AOC and the squad haven't been as left as promised

[–] flossdaily 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AOC pulls the party to the left with her rhetoric, and then lends her support to strengthen the party as a whole.

In this political environment, when the opposition is literally a fascist cult, it's great that she's being a team player.

Also when she eventually does run for president, she won't have alienated the party.

She has handled it perfectly.