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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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How to Steal an Election - Climate Town (youtu.be)
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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I was baffled after watching this that the americans still consider their country the democraciest of all.

[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Americans (and others in "democracies") can choose every few years which oligarchs have a turn at the wheel. However, any kind of democracy at the workplace is forbidden. Workers getting together to decide what to produce by democratic means? Sounds like communism. Can only get democracy theatre.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Americans are the most heavily brainwashed and propagandized population out of all western "democracies".

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Let's try to not have this close an election again, cause you just know the same fuckery is gonna happen if there's even a slight chance of Republicans getting away with it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the structure and nature of our electoral process and state level politics these days make it essentially a given that this sort of thing is going to continue for a while.

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah but if people show up to vote in large turnout numbers, it helps with these issues.