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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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Tariffs May Make It Too Expensive to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ | President Trump’s tariff polices have sent oil prices falling, which may push energy companies to reconsider their plans to drill. (www.nytimes.com)
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The article also has a second section on the failure of the Canadian carbon tax.

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Who knew tariffs were so good for the environment. Nobody knew. One day, an oil tycoon came to me and said, 'sir, I think tariffs will drive us out of business.' I said fine. We need to reduce the fossil. Scientists say, and we know how much we can trust them... They said it, it's true... Fossil is bad for the environment." -- Trump taking credit for this.

[–] millie@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fossil is bad. Fossil is bad! I said it first. Way back when nobody knew. I knew. I knew all along. But you gotta play it smart. Can't show your cards. Not a lot of people know about fossil, but I always knew. Ask the ones who know and they'll tell you. A lot of people will say I didn't know. A lot of people will say I said to drill. Never said it. I always knew. I always know.