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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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John Kerry said major oil-exporting countries’ willingness to acknowledge that the era of fossil fuels must come to an end underscored the “urgency” of the deal. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Russia the second largest oil producer is currently sanctioned rather heavily making it harder for them to buy high end oil equipment.

The Middle East sees Yemen attacking ships including tankers nowadays. The Middle East has a lot of oil and that might be cut off.

At the same time we know oil is bad and we have great alternatives mainly in transport with trains, bicycles and so forth and also worse ones like EVs. So if we see extraordinarily high oil prices, we can realistically reduce consumption. That is a big change.