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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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Biden says global warming topping 1.5 degrees in the next 10 to 20 years is scarier than nuclear war (www.cnbc.com)
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What Biden has done is to cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law, pass the Inflation Reduction Act, enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification, and similarly force fossil fuels out of most power plants.

What Biden has not done: stop issuing drilling permits or impose export restrictions on fossil fuels. The former has some serious limits because of how the courts treat the right to drill as a property right once you hold a drilling lease, and the latter is simply untested.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Relaaaax. We're not going to die. Most likely anyways. Our children tho... hoo boy they might have a bit of a problem on their hands

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey so as someone who is 35 and has survived massive flooding and a heat dome, the "its not something we'll have to worry about" line doesn't really make sense when I think about getting old and experiencing things like dementia or limited mobility in a world at 1.75 degrees warming

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey as someone who is most likely headed for Alzheimer's myself, at least I won't even know I'm living in hell on earth! Silver lining I guess... 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, I'm 25 and we're starting to feel the effect very obviously now. What makes you think it won't be seriously affecting me in my life?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It will obviously affect all of us to varying degrees. But we won't all die. Quite a lot will die (a lot of old people and a lot of poor people, as is tradition), but we don't get anywhere by making a Hollywood movie out of it. It's serious enough on it's own.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to believe it would be a problem for our children. But it's happening right now. Wildfires, cyclones, heat waves, lack of water, pandemics... It's happening right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh for sure and it seems to be happening a lot faster than even the conservative guesstimates. But I'd bet my bottom dollar that future generations are gonna have it way worse than us if we don't change course big time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

HAHA, jokes on you, I haven't procreated!