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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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Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Trump is bad for the environment and Biden is bad for the environment.

They're not equally bad though. This is a case of not letting perfection be the enemy of the good.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

not letting perfection be the enemy of the good

The Earth catching on fire and all life on it ceasing to exist, but 1 year later, is not "good".

If you think Biden is "good" on the environment, I suggest you read literally anything on Climate Change and see what scientists actually propose. Hint: Biden isn't even talking about doing any of them, let alone doing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't see how worse is going to help though. I would say one would let the free market handle it but its shown he will actually incentivze drilling. The other will at least incentive renewables. I mean what is good at this point? We know that nothing currently being proposed will eliminate it. Its all mitigation at best. I will go for some mitigation rather than lets ignore and step on the gas pedal.