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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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Scientists are wary and uncertain as Trump returns to power | Scientists are on high alert as Donald Trump returns to the White House, with implications for climate change and research. (wapo.st)
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[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

We went through this in Canada too with the last Conservative government. They muzzled the government scientists and destroyed the research they had been collecting for decades. We are looking at a return to this in the next election cycle. Most people don't remember or care.

At some point it's going to be like that Wall-E movie where the large corporations in charge keep promising a better world while destroying it in the process for more profits and the Sheeple will just baaah the latest Qanon talking point they heard.