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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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The current Senate Draft of US budget bill is going to destroy wind and solar - help stop it (slrpnk.net)
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The current Senate draft of the US budget bill not only ends subsidies for wind and solar, but imposes a new tax of 30% or 50% of value on them, including on home rooftop solar, with any meaningful foreign-made components. You can't do any of this anymore without foreign-made components because the GOP is also gutting support for US manufacturing. Doing this is going to make US decarbonization effectively impossible.

If you're an American, call your representative and senators and tell them to vote down the bill so long as this is in it.

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