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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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Biden just set a big new climate goal. Can the US achieve it? (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Yes, absolutely.

Will it?

Fuck no.

[–] A7thStone 9 points 2 days ago

Is this a fucking joke? Biden knows anything he does now is just going to get overturned. Why didn't any of this get done years ago when it might have had time to become entrenched? I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

sure with the coming mandates requiring all military to be coal powered (something like that anyway)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

No.

[–] DarkFuture 5 points 2 days ago

Lol.

No.

If it requires the intelligence and initiative of Americans to counter the will and resources of the ultra-wealthy, then no.

[–] zib 4 points 2 days ago

We can do a lot of things. However, we won't because it's not profitable and doesn't cause enough needless suffering to the people whom our wealthy elites dislike.