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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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Oil majors target judges as climate suits multiply (www.politico.com)
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[–] andymouse 2 points 1 year ago

In Rhode Island, for example, oil companies say the judge hearing their case created the “appearance of bias” by citing two news stories about climate change that had not been entered into the record.

In Hawaii, a conservative group is casting doubt on the objectivity of a judge because he’s involved in an organization that provides legal education on climate science, among other topics.

Winning tactic? Questioning state judges’ objectivity doesn’t appear to be making much headway for the industry so far.

Seems like the white suits in the oil industry have decided to go fishing. Soon they'll revert to the desperate fallback argument - God: "God put this oil here for us to use."