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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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Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I fear the worst. The guy who invented the formula that put lead in petrol(gasoline), spent the next, umm...i think 50 years fighting to get it removed. I expect something like this to take about 70 or 80 years at the rate the US moves. Le Sigh

[–] rycee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, maybe you're thinking about somebody else? The guy I know of as putting lead in gasoline went on to put CFCs in fridges...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You are correct, I was thinking of the Agent Orange guy who was trying to improve soybean growth. I saw it on this TV show hosted by John Noble called "Dark Matters".