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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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‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

The US is much more fragile than it seems. It was able to dominate the world by leveraging control of oil and currency to maintain the internal caste system. Fascism is expensive though, and it's already choking.

Genocide is a last gasp to maintain power. There is no way to prevent revolution, so the right is flailing. They believe that if they reestablish the "demographic distribution" that existed at their height, they can maintain power. Basically, they think they can ethnically cleanse the US back to the right. But that can't work. Nothing can possibly work because it's all over for them. So yeah, the US isn't going to last much longer... Especially now that they've nuked the soft power they used for so long to keep everything in check.