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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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Is Biden taking climate change seriously? Here's why some experts want him to declare an emergency (www.salon.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it would allow him to better use executive agencies to enforce environmental regulations already on the books?

There is a lot of low hanging fruit in the US, especially with transportation. The first thing I would do is run HSR from LA to Las Vegas and from Las Vegas to Phoenix.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The rail from la to lv has already been approved and supposedly slated for 2027