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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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cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/295424

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[–] Amilo159 31 points 1 year ago

It's a shame that younger people, who are struggling with economy and have generally less money, can only buy older cars that need twice as much fuel as a newer, efficient model (or ev that can be zero emission, depending on source of electricity), but also pollute three times as much.

I don't know who shell is trying to fool. No one, especially young people will ever think buying petrol is cool so they should do it more. It's something they hate to do as there is often little choice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I recommended giving this a watch, exactly about this topic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh good. I was just thinking "Hmm, I haven't tried Fortnite in a long while, maybe I should check it out again." ...Yeah. ...No.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love that they always shut down vapes because there isnt evidence for them being healthier than smoking. But from my experience people who vape generally only have a nicotine addiction while people who smoke can barely breathe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shell sports, it's in the game ...of turning tax money into smog