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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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US Energy Department to Gut Funding for Solar and Wind Projects (www.nytimes.com)
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Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.

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[–] skisnow 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why are Republicans so keen to maintain oil dependence on Middle Eastern countries?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They know who butters their bread

Though I'll note that the dependence is somewhat limited; the US has been a net oil exporter for several years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

There is still dependence on imports because the "oil liquids" that extract in the US are different from the oil that they want locally. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54199

There's also dependence on the petro-dollar. This one is more complicated, but if the world demand for oil drops, it's going to make USD less valuable.