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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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Who’s to blame for climate change: Fossil fuel producers or purchasers? (www.voanews.com)
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The role of Azerbaijan as a growing exporter of fossil fuels has forced a debate at this month’s climate conference in Baku over which countries are most responsible for worsening climate change — the producers or the countries that buy and burn those fuels.

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Automakers to Trump: Please Require Us to Sell Electric Vehicles |Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that push carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them (www.nytimes.com)
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Why California's favorite bagel shop is defending fossil fuels (www.latimes.com)
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The Clean Energy Boom in Republican Districts: Trump has said he’ll repeal President Biden’s climate law, but one North Carolina district shows how hard unwinding multibillion-dollar projects could be (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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Richer countries are starting to pay poorer ones for climate change damages (www.npr.org)
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Revealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows (www.theguardian.com)
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Duke Energy Knew: Documenting Duke Energy’s Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception About Climate Change (energyandpolicy.org)
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AI’s hunger for electric power is threatening U.S. climate goals: Electric utility companies are building more power plants that will burn methane to meet demands of a data center construction boom (wapo.st)
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‘A blank piece of paper’: Here’s why the U.N. climate talks are in trouble | A draft deal unveiled at the U.N. Climate Change Conference could disappoint many delegates from most vulnerable countries (wapo.st)
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As a COP29 deal on fossil fuels falters, the blame game begins (grist.org)
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With U.N. talks coming to a close, some are accusing oil-producing states of weakening the world’s commitment to the green transition.

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Climate Science Deniers Use Farmers’ Protests to Attack Net Zero (www.desmog.com)
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COP29: Row at climate talks over ‘backsliding’ on fossil fuels (www.bbc.com)
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A row has broken out at COP29 climate talks as leading countries said a draft deal risked going back on a historic agreement to reduce the use of planet-warming fossil fuels.

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‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle (www.theguardian.com)
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Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms (www.theguardian.com)
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Inexpensive catalyst recycles methane emissions at room temperature (phys.org)
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A Virginia Circuit Court Finds Youngkin’s Withdrawal from RGGI ‘Unlawful’ (insideclimatenews.org)
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Cop29 turns heat up on Turkey and Azerbaijan over oil exports to Israel (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Groups call for protests over countries' role in supplying Israel with nearly 30 percent of its oil

The pipeline transports Azerbaijani crude oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, supplying Israel with 28 percent of its oil imports at a time when Israel is waging war on Gaza and Lebanon.

The pipeline is majority owned by BP, with Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company Socar the second-largest shareholder.

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Turkish relations with Israel have plummeted since the Gaza war began, (...)

However, Lorne Stockman, the author of a report by advocacy group Oil Change International, which tracked oil shipments to Israel up until July, said that their data sources showed multiple shipments from Ceyhan since May.

“We reached out to our data sources and they are seeing shipments that are registered as having come from the BTC [ Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan] terminus, which is Ceyhan, and arrived in Ashkelon in September and October and November.”

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Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power (www.democracynow.org)
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Protect This Place: Ladakh, the Planet’s ‘Third Pole’ (therevelator.org)
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📈 Why everyone missed solar’s exponential growth (www.exponentialview.co)
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The main explanation for continuous underforcasts by IEA, is that their rolodex includes only oil companies, and that's who they ask.

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Peut-on bloquer un pipeline au nom de la protection du climat de la planète? (www.ledevoir.com)
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The Great COP Co-opting: New Documents Show Big Oil Has Been There All Along | As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start. (drilled.media)
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A call for EPA action on climate risks to hazardous waste facilities (www.thenewlede.org)
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Climate Change Amplified the Winds in Every Hurricane in 2024 (www.scientificamerican.com)
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How oil ‘wildcatters’ ended up in charge of Donald Trump’s energy policy (www.ft.com)
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