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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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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 26 points 3 months ago

It almost certainly will grind a lot of governance to a halt as every little minute regulatory effort is litigated to death by corporate plaintiffs, while the Conservative courts slow-walk their proceedings.

Government will still function, but at a snail's pace, which I'm sure is the entire point: grind it to a halt when non-Conservatives have control and open the floodgates when Conservatives are in power.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Not entirely though actually getting anything past the courts is going to mean something like expanding the court to disempower the Republicans there.

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t even need to be ambitious. It just has to be ambiguous.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

But what does "has to" mean anyways? The reality is motivated judge can rule pretty much anything as "ambiguous"