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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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Haley is more climate conscious than Trump—which isn't saying much | She admits warming is real, but is still all in on fossil fuels. (www.motherjones.com)
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Just to be clear, fossil fuel burning is responsible for the bulk of the warming people have caused:

Of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the combustion of fossil fuels was responsible for about 64%±15%, growing to an 86%±14% contribution over the past 10 years.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So even worse then? She knows it’s fucking up the environment she just doesn’t care.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I'd say that acknowledging the problem is the first step towards being willing to act, even if she hasn't gotten to that second part yet

[–] ConditionOverload 2 points 11 months ago

Trump probably also knows all this. But he won't ever admit it if it means losing votes or money.