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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 and gas industry needs to let go of carbon capture as solution to climate change, IEA says (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

It's terrible as a solution to climate change, but it's fantastic as a solution to being hassled about climate change. Run your clean coal through carbon capture powered by clean natural gas and your politician friends can pretend that climate change is a lesser problem than some bullshit about trans people playing sports.