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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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Are Electric Cars the Solution? (www.resilience.org)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No. They’re a step.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They solve the wrong problem - we need fewer cars, not electric cars.

[–] Oddbin 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but we're shit at doing that so how about we do the "easy" part of getting less CO2 and local pollution by shifting everything Electric right now and push for better overall. This is a case for doing something in the right direction, not waiting for the perfect solution.

Unless you have a time machine and we go back to the 80s and start the conversion then like we should have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Came here to say this. Many changes need to be made, and some will be more effective than others, but we can't afford to do nothing.