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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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“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump (www.propublica.org)
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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the whole idea. They don't want an EPA. It's going to take most of a century for climate change to really fuck shit up, and that's a long enough time that they don't care. If they even believe in it in the first place, and don't ascribe to more biblical interpretations anyway.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's already here and it's already fucking shit up.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

This is pretty mild compared to what the future holds if things remain unchanged. Billions haven't been displaced/killed yet.

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