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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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Biden’s Record Is Full of Climate Wins — So Why Don’t Voters Know It? Environmental groups are making a concerted effort to educate voters about President Joe Biden’s climate policies before election (www.notus.org)
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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, people who argue that Biden shouldn't be criticised for his genocide because "Trump is worse" are just doing genocide denial.

Even if you take the stance that he has to beat Trump to prevent an even worse climate disaster, his genocide might stop him beating Trump. He is choosing genocide and supporting fascism overseas rather than beating fascism at home.

People go on about how much we need to beat Trump but I'm pretty convinced that Biden and the DNC don't really want to beat Trump.

That's also why threatening to not vote Biden is useless - he won't care. Vote for him and force him to spend another 4 years disappointing and radicalising his own base against the US empire.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People go on about how much we need to beat Trump but I’m pretty convinced that Biden and the DNC don’t really want to beat Trump.

If beating Trump was the priority, you don't run Biden as a candidate.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's so obviously true but libs can't accept it so they just come with the downvotes.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Oh I don't worry about these narcissistic, scared, desperate haters.

They've relegated themselves to the dustbin of history with the fact that their world view is unable to accurately predict future states of the world.