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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 IRA has injected $240 billion into clean energy. The US still needs more. (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Also look at the crazy clean energy developments that happen in states with recent trifectas, like Minnesota. e.g., which requires transportation planning agencies consider climate goals and basically do LCA when assessing new projects. Last I check, no other state has such a requirement.

The dems don't get much credit on very much at all, but their record on climate is honestly pretty solid. The IRA kicks ass and no one who follows climate policy closely expected anything 1/10 as good of it to come out of that congress.