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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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Climate groups begin legal actions against Rosebank North Sea oil project (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] scientist@eu.mastodon.green 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

@Lats @silence7

We can leave it in the ground and it would be crazy to want to "max out oil and gas"

"crazy" as in an obvious sign that some politicians don't understand what the hell they're talking about.

Or to be more polite, they're not listening to the scientific advice because they don't understand the science. George Monbiot thinks some leaders are sociopaths.

However, the fact that #COP28 agreed that fossil fuels need to be phased out, is a big win for humanity (considering)