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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: ‘Nobody intelligent’ can deny the impact of climate crisis (thehill.com)
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[–] escapesamsara 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't worry, right after he's reelected he'll start a committee to encourage creation of a congressional sub-committee to get to the bottom of this new radical leftist divisionary idea of 'climate change' and propose a committee based on their findings to propose non-binding legislation to be voted on by 2050 only to get shot down by all republicans and whatever number of democrats are needed to ensure none of that ever happens. Mission Accomplished.