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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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Where Harris and Trump stand on climate change policies (www.pbs.org)
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To summarize: Trump has a real history of telling lies in order to maximize fossil fuel extraction and consumption. Harris has helped take at some action in the direction of getting the US off of fossil fuels though not yet enough.

I'm very much in favor of stopping Trump, so if you want to help out, you can do that here

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Harris: Let's do not enough about climate change.

Trump: Let's burn the planet to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair to her, I don't think her views have actually constituted the limiting factor on US action — that would have been what could pass through the Senate, where we needed the vote of a literal coal baron to get even budget reconciliation passed (that takes only 50 votes + the VP, anything else requires 60 votes)