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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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Big Banks Flee Climate Coalition Formed to Reduce Carbon Emissions | JPMorgan Chase, the last major U.S. bank in the coalition, could also withdraw (www.wsj.com)
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[–] taiidan@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are we really trusting banks to lead the charge on climate change? How about we break the cycle of financial collapse every 20 years first.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

come on don't be so cynical, the banks can absolutely *solve climate change

"solve" in this case being a specific finance term best translated into english as something along the lines of "structurally hollow out the foundation of the thing until the thing enters a cyclic pattern of catastrophic collapse that can be exploited by the wealthy"

[–] taiidan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

You had me going in the first half, lol.