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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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What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view | Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Surely voting will make a difference this time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Here's how it has worked in the US:

In the 1980s we could get a hearing in Congress, but not even a meaningful proposal for action.

Around 2010, we tried cap-and-trade. Passed the house. Would have gotten 36-38 votes in the Senate, so it didn't get a vote.

In 2021, we actually passed the Inflation Reduction Act. It's getting us an almost-all-carrots approach to building decarbonization infrastructure.

We're actually fairly close to the point where we might actually pass more, as we need to.