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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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In climate science, the US is now a rogue state | Failing to gather, preserve and acknowledge environmental data means less sight of what is inevitably ahead (www.ft.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Rogue" is a funny way to say fucking stupid

The sad reality is that the stupidity is deliberate

They're not "rogue", they're malicious.

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

Oddly hair-splitting objection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Rogue" implies that they may be misguided

They're not misguided

They are doing deliberate harm

Someone who has "gone rogue" is redeemable, and will change their ways when they see a better path

The malicious will not

There's definitely a significant difference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The more information we have the better prepared we will be for whats ahead, of course that doesn't work for trump because he does best in darkness