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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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Canada’s Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] jadero 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, of course they are.

The region now called Canada was colonized strictly for resource extraction, most exemplified by the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company, both still in operation. (HBC, NWC)

That heritage leads to, among other things, a normalization of foreign ownership of resource extraction companies and a preference for exporting raw materials instead of building out our own manufacturing sector. It also makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion that might lead to effective controls on any extractive industry.

[–] iraq_lobster 1 points 11 months ago

in Canada they are still allowed to drive those 2004 Peterbilt trucks that run with no emissions controls (no dpf, no euro 7 emission standands: just plain, NOx rich, diesel exhaust gases straight to the atmosphere). If anything, it would help to boycott canadian products.