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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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What Project 2025 Would Mean for Climate Change (atmos.earth)
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[–] Delusional 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yup their plan is to ignore it like it doesn't exist and continue making it worse and worse for profit. The republican way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It would mean that it is over.

[–] tomi000 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hate to be that guy but I think by now we can switch from 'would' to 'will'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The outcome of the US Presidential election is still about equally likely to go to either way.

[–] veganpizza69 1 points 4 months ago

It means RCP6.0 to RCP8.5