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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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Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Their formula for calculating greenness drastically underestimates the impact of carbon emissions. That's the only reason there's a PHEV at the top of the list.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With all due respect, I think I'll take ACEEE's word over yours with regards to the environmental costs of NOx, CO2, PM, and other pollutants.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you know of the funding of ACEEE?

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://www.aceee.org/aceee-ally-program

Not a single car company, if that's what you're going for. State of California Energy Commission is one of the bigger contributors.