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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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Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration (envirodatagov.org)
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Full Report.

“The pace and severity of this administration’s attacks on environmental information have been far worse than in the first Trump administration,” says lead author Izzy Pacenza. EDGI began monitoring federal environmental websites in the first Trump administration and this time observed 70% more website changes in President Trump’s first 100 days in office. And that was just the start.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

the problem for Trump is that when Nixon took the USA from a gold standard currency to an oil standard currency through the deal with OPEC where all oil transactions would happen with dollars which would prop up the dollar's value ... as the world is moving away from oil that affects the valuation of the dollar.

so Trump is trying to reverse course by destroying evidence of oil extraction and manufacturing being bad, and thus Trump thinks he will save the US dollar from its eminent collapse.

Just like how Bush toppled Saddam Hussein's government for offering to sell Iraqi oil for Euro's instead of dollars.

Just FYI

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you, this is very helpful perspective and it’s new to me.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Modern book burning.