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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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Trump’s War on Clean Energy Would Benefit China, Economists Say: President Biden’s landmark climate law could be repealed in Trump administration. Would jeopardize $488 billion in American investments (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And? They don't care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A lot of Americans care about national competitiveness — this gives them a reason to turn out and vote for policy they like.

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

I understand that, but in reality that money is not being lost by the rich but the hard worker. So to the wealthy business owners that back Trump, they don't care. They will still make their money and for the people that vote for Trump that will be hurt. They don't care, they are so lost in seeing Democrats as evil and subhumans that they are fine in hurting themselves in confusion as Pokemon says.