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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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US Supreme Court Judge Sam Alito has an oil money problem | 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels. (heated.world)
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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Alito’s individual stock portfolio

His what now?

One issue we have now isn't exactly insider trading: it's that insider trading has been happening for so long that it feels like simply requiring no conflicts of interest, as should be standard operating procedure, now feels like inventing an entirely new system.

And of course, we have to contend with all the people who are worried about disenfranching the people in these positions.

Or, maybe, just maybe: the people who should be representing the public and running the country are those who would do so without worrying about their self-enrichment first.