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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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The response itself is here:

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  • Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement
  • Targeting wind power
  • Regulating emissions

Buried deep inside Trump’s order on “unleashing American energy” is a directive that would not just end climate regulations, but would also make sure no future administration could ever curb dangerous emissions from fossil fuels.

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Per the activists:

The finance and insurance sectors of the economy have the power to make a significant difference. Without funding or insurance, fossil fuel companies cannot continue to operate or expand. Banks and insurance companies have clients other than fossil fuel extractors, they can continue to exist without this custom and so our demands aren’t unreasonable.

Banks and insurers have responded to campaigners’ demands by taking the tiniest of steps, however there is a serious discrepancy between what they are doing and what they must do in order to prevent catastrophic levels of global warming.

Now we are escalating to demonstrate that we – the public – will not accept this institutional and corporate support for climate breakdown.

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I'll note that the US is a net exporter of oil and of methane gas.

Since Americans can't actually burn the additional extraction, this means more exports, and profits for the owners, rather than some kind of public benefit. So Americans reap all the consequent climate damage, but somebody else gets all the benefit.

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State Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel said the city failed to prove that Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP misled New Yorkers about the climate impacts of fossil

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The paper is here

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Atmospheric CO2 levels rose faster than ever in 2024, according to scientists who say the rise is “incompatible” with Paris Agreement goals.

“Today, governments around the globe spend nine times more making fossil fuels cheaper than they do on making clean energy more affordable for consumers,” Guterres said. “We must tear down these walls.”

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The Dutch TROPOMI space instrument creates daily global maps of carbon monoxide (CO) in the atmosphere. Researchers from SRON and TNO have now measured CO emissions over a full year from the 21 largest European steel plants. The preprint is available on EGUsphere.

Together, these are responsible for 77% of European and 7% of worldwide steel production. The satellite measurements confirm the reported values for the majority of the monitored plants.

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PETER SOMERVILLE reviews Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton (Verso 2024).

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The expansion is inconsistent with decarbonization.

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