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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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African extraction of natural gas poses a vexing climate challenge (wapo.st)
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[–] QuandaleDingle 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to get themselves out of poverty before they can think about the climate. An unfortunate bind they're in. "We're" first world countries wagging our finger at them. "We've already had our economic cake so we can leapfrog forward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or...wind and solar are now incredibly cheap, and it makes sense to develop using those, rather than create a bunch of stranded assets which will hold people back.

[–] Guest_User 2 points 1 year ago

They are not producing the same those technologies in any substantial numbers though. They could however make some quick cash for a generation or two (or much longer what do I know) exploiting hydrocarbons