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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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GOP Attorneys General Seeking to Block Climate Lawsuits Are Funded by Big Oil (truthout.org)
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[โ€“] Veraxus@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of the state attorneys general who participated in the legal action are members of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), which runs a cash-for-influence operation that coordinates the official actions of these GOP state AGs and sells its corporate funders access to them and their staff. The majority of all state attorneys general are listed as members of RAGA.

Completely out-in-the-open, bald-faced, brazen, institutionalized corruption.

[โ€“] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 8 points 5 months ago

Just like before the US revolution, where Virginia's government was seen as so corrupt, other colonies refused to do business with them.

Never mind that the seeds of the entire revolution was tax avoidance for the rich.