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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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Jimmy Carter Might Have Saved the Climate, If the Country Had Let Him Try (www.splinter.com)
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[โ€“] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 50 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Al Gore Might Have Saved the Climate, If the Country Had Let Him Try

Or Jay Lenno, Bruce Springsteen, any random person.

The point being that our society is being manipulated by politicians who have been bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry.

This whole bullocks around recycling, solar panels on our houses, buying wind power instead of coal power electricity is all fiddling around the edges.

We've got billionaires burning more energy than cities, industrial processes tearing up the environment and the big technology businesses have just invented the biggest energy guzzler of all time, "AI", spearheaded by Microsoft, Google, Amazon and now Apple.

[โ€“] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court* on the first one.

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