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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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One Year In, President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is Driving Historic Climate Action and Investing in America to Create Good Paying Jobs and Reduce Costs (www.whitehouse.gov)
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[–] TrundleTheGreat@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, according to the president’s own staff, you mean? Still no climate emergency declaration, still approving new oil drilling and exploration projects, no pardons for imprisoned climate activists, nothing substantial at all. And regarding the inflation itself, I can’t say things feel any easier now than they did a year ago. Prices are still astronomical and most people haven’t gotten raises to reflect that. Even EBT hasn’t gone up in a good while, so people on food stamps are literally forced to go with over 10% less than they did within the last year or so.

Still waiting on that good paying job, reduced prices, and improving climate, Joe.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inflation dropped, so prices are rising more slowly. Deflation, where prices drop, causes a collapse in investment and spending, which was a key cause of the Great Depression. You don't want that.

The law cuts the rate of emissions; it doesn't lower temperatures. It'll take getting the whole world on board to bring emissions to zero, and that's only enough to stabilize temperatures.

[–] TrundleTheGreat@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It feels like a real slap in the face when the government just shrugs their shoulders and says, “Sorry, if we try to make things less unbearable, it might bring the whole system crashing down around us. This is just how it is from now on, so get used to it.”

“Then surely you’re going to pass a higher minimum wage, at least?”

“Haha, also no.”

Prices going up slower than they’ve been is a small consolation when prices shot sky high all at once and continued to do so for months, leading to the still unconscionably high prices we see today. Our only option is to live in food insecurity to preserve the profits of billionaires? What a joke.

Besides, this is the climate community; degrowth is without a doubt one of the best paths forward for reducing further climate change. We need to slow down because all this isn’t sustainable whatsoever. It’s investors who drive the profit-over-everything model, driving the very extractivist capitalism that fuels climate change today. Fuck ‘em. I’d take 10 million “broke” investors over a dead planet 100/100 times.

[–] o_0@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

i don't think whitehouse dot gov is the best source for this lmao