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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, look at what happens even in liberal hotbeds like NYC and San Fransisco. Democrats are so obsessed with appeasing wealthy reactionaries that they'll do obnoxiously anti-popular moves like Hochul delaying congestion pricing (what a turn of face that's been) and Dianne Feinstein raising a Confederate Flag above the mayor's office.

How else do you get a crook like Eric Adams or Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez in these positions of entrenched power without the party endlessly running cover for them. Fucking sickening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No real leaders to rally about, anywhere, that I know about. Just a slow decline into increased corruption

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

No real leaders to rally about, anywhere

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

But real leadership still exists. I've got a great local DSA chapter here in Houston. There are a number of activist groups - Food Not Bombs leaps to mind - that do an incredible job of bringing popular politics to bare against entrenched capital interests. They just don't get a million-dollar kickback from the Heritage Society to produce mediocre rap videos with Tom MacDonald or put up a Whites Only orgy tent at Burning Man.