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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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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg (www.desmog.com)
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[–] Legianus@programming.dev 40 points 2 months ago

He mostly used it for two things. One, as all rich people do, to donate money to their own foundations to save taxes. Second, to push his thoughts and interest on what should be research and what shouldn't.

He didn't do either of these things overtly (e.g. as Musk for the latter), but still Billionaires do Billionaire stuff.

Probs also might have helped his image with Billionaire friends and the public.

There are plenty of times when his funding things interfered. Alas there are for sure times when his funding things helped, but no one individual should posses such power.