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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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Oil companies face a new fine for methane. Trump could scrap it. (wapo.st)
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President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, authorized the EPA to levy a fee on wasteful methane emissions from large oil and gas facilities. The fee starts at $900 per metric ton of emissions in 2024, increasing to $1,200 in 2025 and $1,500 in 2026.

If the fee remains in effect through 2035 — an unlikely scenario after Trump’s election — it would prevent 1.2 million metric tons of methane from entering the atmosphere, according to the EPA. That is the equivalent of taking nearly 8 million gasoline-powered cars off the nation’s roads for a year, the agency said.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is one of many direct climate consequences of the the failure of the Democratic party to run a compelling candidate and platform. I can only hope that states like Colorado and California can keep doing what they're doing, and that the rest of the world can do enough to mitigate at least some of the added damage our country will do over the next 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, on that I blame the overall shift of the US for getting redder, https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18340229

Remember that turnout in 2024 was higher than 2020 for Dems in the swing states - but even more folks came out to vote red.

Agreed on California and Colorado - it's not the same as the whole country but it's a start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, we'll have to wait for real analyses to be done, but I would suggest that a lot of that "shift" has to do with the fact that the Democrat message to struggling working class people was along the lines of "that sucks that you're struggling, but the economy is really fine". The Republican party didn't dismiss them, even if their "solutions" and "causes" were bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Well, if the Bern agrees with you (and it sounds like he does - https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/ ) .. and I think AOC found something similar when she asked, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-who-back-both-aoc-and-trump-explain-their-head-scratching-politics/ar-AA1tTzAS

It really does seem to be down to wanting to be heard more about the economy and such.