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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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The Right Kind of Tipping Point | Global carbon dioxide emissions might have already peaked, according to new estimates, signaling a potentially monumental shift. (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

JFC DON'T tell them! They'll start to get lazy and relapse.

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

The problem with that is that a lot of green technology is of a big investment in the beginning, but cheaper to operate type. So once you have them, it is hard for fossil fuels to compete. We also do not have low fossil fuel prices right now. Both oil and gas are rather expensive and coal can not compete with gas in most places. More so green technologies also have a lobby. So you have the fossil fuel industry in decline, which means less money for lobbying. The laws and systems to replace them are in working already. The simple truth is that passing laws is much harder then to prevent a law from being passed. Obviously the fossil fuel industry has already failed to do the later in many places.

This is one of the reasons we currently see a lot of far right groups poping up everywhere. Fossil fuel has to rewrite the laws. Centrists do not want to do anything and leftists are for the most part for more anti fossil fuel laws. So the far right is their only hope to grow the fossil fuel industry.