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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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[–] guriinii 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a right dodgy cunt. We didn't even elect the corrupt fuck. Actually fuming. He's completely in the pockets of oil companies. His wife's company made a $1.5bn deal with BP six weeks prior to confirming the new oil and gas licenses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I can’t find anything corroborating what you said. Do you have a source?

He made one of the biggest early documentaries about global warming soon after losing the election, An Inconvenient Truth, and has devoted his life to climate change activism. All I’m seeing are reports that he spent a lot of effort making sure his investments are green.

edit: Got it, it's about Rishi Sunak! That makes a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

itt: you've misidentified "he"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The person you're replying to is talking about Rishi Sunak, not Al Gore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Was that user talking about fmr. US VP Gore or UK PM Sunak?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

UK is on a speed run to fuck themselves over... brexit, this terrible internet law, and now this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Tories are trying to ruin the UK as much as they can before the next election.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Probably figure "well we wont get into power again just yet, but we can blame all the really bad times on Labour!"

[–] youCanCallMeDragon 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Report: Al Gore is still Al Gore”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Sunak still a cunt, more at 11.

[–] DiploRaucous 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know about that. He seems to be turning into Rodney Dangerfield.

[–] MrFappy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He looks like Rodney Dangerfield in the thumbnail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Boy, I tell ya, this climate disaster gets no respect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

When did Al Gore start looking like Rodney Dangerfield?!

[–] NounsAndWords 4 points 1 year ago

And now, yet again, I am disappointed that the former VP has not been replaced with artificial intelligence "AI Gore"

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

Aw no, now we're gonna get Manbearpig, and the Tories are going to say "well we didn't have Manbearpig under our government".

[–] TruTollTroll 1 points 1 year ago

He was super cereal back then and we just didn't listen.... we said sorry and that Al was right.... manbearpig is real.... and all he said was, " sucks for you" 😞😭