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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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Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have. (www.nytimes.com)
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But around the US, utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition, and they are probably using your money to do it.

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[–] heyspencerb@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, no shit… Also, if I paid you $100 for you to mow my lawn and then you donated all $100 to my least favorite political campaign it wasn’t my money you donated anymore, it was your money. That’s how transactions work…

[–] silence7 3 points 1 year ago

Regulated utilities in the US aren't that simple. What they do is to force people to pay extra for their gas in order to pay the lobbyists, instead of reducing the dividends they give to investors.