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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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Key background on how Permian reserves have been over-estimated

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There is no reason to believe that rig counts will rise in the near term.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Is this a BIG YAY, or a small yay? Seems like at least a small yay.

[–] BeardedBaker 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good in the sense that reduced production will lead to marginally lower emissions, but bad in terms of price at the pump.

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

Seems this will help continue the trend towards micromobility and EV's. Near and far it seems people are really learning to depend on e-bikes, for instance.

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