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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what exactly was he supposed to do if he didn't have enough senators to get it passed without Manchin's support?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Eh, I think it is fairly moot as Biden would have to have confidence that progressive policy (especially regarding climate change) has popular support and he would not be blamed (or even hurt) by pushing for their passage.

Manchin and Biden would almost certainly have stood to benefit from having passed BBB in the first place. Before that they and the Democratic Party would have had a net benefit passing the Green New Deal.