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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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I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green. | Award-winning filmmaker and director of Gasland Josh Fox on why he will never vote for Jill Stein. (www.thenation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Anyone who has taken even the most superficial look at Trump's record and isn't voting for any opposition must be an idiot.

I have the advantage of living in New York, where we got to watch him embarrass himself for decades before taking the national stage.

He was fined for employing illegal immigrants from Poland when he was building Trump Tower.

He was fined for discriminatory actions in his Queens' rentals.

He refused to pay off dozens of small companies in Atlantic City, driving many of them into bankruptcy.

Any one of those should be enough to disqualify him, but somehow it's just not enough.