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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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm not willing to go that far; people in that kind of decline often don't have the self-awareness that it takes to make good decisions. I'm willing to blame the people around him for not forcing it, but that's not the same as aiming at him.

Why are you doing these mental gymnastics? This is a fact Joe Biden should have known and should have accounted for before trying to run at an incredibly advanced age. Yes, this is specifically and primarily Joe Biden's fault. That is how culpability works, the dangers of age towards our ability to think lucidly aren't a new awareness that has suddenly dawned on us only after poor Joe started to get fuzzy.

sigh can you just stop? He fucked us over, badly, and yes the cabinet and people around Joe Biden also fucked us over. Jill Biden seriously fucked us because she was absolutely one of the people who should have known what was happening and stood up to say something FAR earlier about her husband, a man she would have presumably been able to tell wasn't in mental faculty terms the man she had been married to for a good chunk of her life....