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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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Cop28 president falsely says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't climate change like one of the findings with most scientific research and consensus around it? Is he trying to say that we don't 'know' that cutting co2 emissions with cutting oil consumption specifically will help? (Which is also not true) Or I guess he's probably just blatantly lying.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He's an oil executive, so blatantly lying at the behest of the local royalty which owns the company and country