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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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Um, I think we all just won | Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth (billmckibben.substack.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quit doing a victory lap hoping for Biden to fix it. He is no friend of environmentalists he is a neoliberal who is tanking his chances at relection to support a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He's the moderate compromise candidate, instead of the one who is out to tank the environment for spite. He's been doing a lot of the right things.

I'll go for that any day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Vote for who you vote for. I'm in a hard blue state and I see zero reason to vote for Biden in the general. Those in swing states should vote for the democratic nominee that exists because to not do so helps Trump. In states where Biden is for sure going to win people should vote for someone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Compromise cannidates don't work. They let the country go right with no benefit. You know which cannidate actually got lots of crossover votes from Republicans? Bernie Sanders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sanders had the support of about 1/3 of the Democrats. You can't get somebody like that to actually be the nominee unless you get the rest of the Democrats to support their policies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

he got screwed over by the party, twice. primary elections explicitly aren't free and fair, legally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If he had a majority of Democratic primary voters behind him, that wouldn't have mattered so much. The reason he was leading was that the moderates were split across many candidates.