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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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Fossil Fuel Power Plants Kill 35x More Birds Than Wind Turbines (www.distilled.earth)
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[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a private pilot licence and flew near Coal Plants here in Australia. You can smell the coal plant long before you can see the coal plant outside if you're flying at lower altitude (not sure about much higher, since I've only approached them probably at less than 3500ft)

It really gives some perspective just how unhealthy they are. People think you only smell them when you're near the smoke stack, but the smoke stretches a huge distance at higher altitude