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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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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition (www.sierraclub.org)
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[–] pip 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Right-wing" and "Think Tank" should be an oxymoron

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

They shouldn't even be called Think Tanks they're just Lobby Groups. Think tanks are an actual thing, but their name has become so muddied that it's essentially become meaningless.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like things don't look grim enough 😢

[–] silence7 6 points 8 months ago

They've been fighting like this since the beginning. It's not new, though the specific details of what they're up to are.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Um…this isn’t news. They’ve been plotting against and kneecapping the clean energy transition since its inception.

[–] silence7 1 points 8 months ago

It bears repeating through