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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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Fully remote workers could produce less than half the climate-warming emissions of people who spend their days in offices (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] Mojojojo1993 8 points 1 year ago

You can't use normal thinking.

Lots of things are common sense or even backed up with scientific studies.

Money is what makes the difference.

Just look at coal vs renewables.

Coal has always been cheaper but the minute that started to change. Huge push towards renewables. Not because they are just better but because companies can make big bucks