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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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Car industry calls for shift in EU emissions targets amid slowing EV sales | Automotive lobby group warns ‘multibillion-euro fines’ will punish manufacturers without relaxation of rules (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The EU emission targets would require about 37% of cars sold to be EVs starting next year. That is nearly double the current level in a few months. Combined with low car sales mainly due to work from home being more populare since the pandemic and car makers have a decent challenge to solve. Also they can not just buy Chinese due to tarrifs.

Also the German government has already declined to work towards lowering those targets. It is the German car industry calling for it.