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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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‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint | driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

we can't have 4 years of natural gas and coal expansion

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

The thing is we should've never had 80 years of gas expansion if only we invested in electric science earlier. Instead we invested fully on oil and only now, at the brink of climate collapse the solution is to force 180° turn to state controlled electricity.

Why not start by aknowledging mistakes? Instead they force us EV.