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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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Will Harris go after Big Oil? The candidate has kept her climate policy vague so far, but her record as a prosecutor gives climate activists hope. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I felt gross when she was talking about fracking at the debate. I thought she was going to take a harder stance and I'm quite disappointed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

She likely needs to win in Pennsylvania to win, and opposition to fracking would cost her votes there.

Attitudes in the state are changing, but not yet at the point where she can openly oppose fracking and win.