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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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Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope.

Here in Germany the highest court decided a while ago (2019, 2021? Not sure), that the current climate policy is unconstitutional, because it's limiting the freedom of coming generations.

And nothing happened.

So Germany currently has a government that openly defies the constitution and nobody seems to care.

[โ€“] neanderthal 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not German, but if I were to guess It's all about the cars. We need to stop driving cars en mass. Isn't the car industry a significant portion of your economy?