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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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Behind All the Talk, This Is What Big Oil Is Actually Doing (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporations don't behave ethically unless forced to by regulation (when the consequences are severe enough, anyway) so this really isn't that surprising

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

...or the cost of unethical behavior is greater than the cost of ethical behavior. In either case, we can't rely on the "ethical behavior" of any organization without changing the rules of the game.