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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 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term (thehill.com)
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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who isn't from that country, the climate can't survive more USA, who's running it doesn't seem to make much difference.

(Not that they're the only country causing this global disaster of course, just the one highlighted in this post)

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago

From another outsiders perspective the difference seems to be that the Democrats invest in green technologies, whereas the Republicans do not. Both support fossil fuels thou.

[–] the_third@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Pretty much that. It's a nice thing that I have electric vehicles running from my roof and renewables and an extremely energy efficient house with a heatpump while millions of US citizens cool down what are basically cardboard boxes to comfy temperatures in summer while driving their personal trucks to the next supermarket 30km away.