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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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Trump Is Now Bribing Energy Companies With Your Taxpayer Dollars | What everyone gets from a strange deal to pay a company nearly $1 billion to abandon a wind project (newrepublic.com)
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[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah Mr. President I'm building an even bigger wind farm though, it'll be a bazillion turbines and power half the US.

I'll even cancel for only $500M, what a bargain!

[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only if you give him $499.99M back as generous present

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

hey, I'm still left with $10,000, I'll take it...

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Make sure to get a plot close to his New Jersey golf course for where this wind farm will be, that will incentivize the deal to go through.