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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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The problem with every country’s promise to phase out fossil fuels: Nobody is really planning for a fossil fuel phaseout (wapo.st)
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And part of the reason is that almost every country and company sees itself in a unique position: as the future last producer of fossil fuels.

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[–] Slwh47696 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly it doesn't even really matter anymore. We should've phased out fossil fuels about 30 years ago to have a chance. Just going to enjoy the next 10 years as the climate absolutely shits itself

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The bulk of fossil fuels are still in the ground. There are forests yet standing. We have incredible power to stabilize temperatures if we act, and act now

How bad it gets is literally a matter of degree. I'll be fighting for every little tick mark on the thermometer.