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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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Greener banking in Australia: how to put your money where your values are (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] Steve 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their bottom line might improve with the publicity they get for cutting off the fossil fuel companies. We don't even know how much they got from those anyway. They might not be giving up much.

And ESGs can outperform in some years. But over the long term (10+ years), and with the increased management fees, they don't.

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

The vanguard ESGV fund is, I think, similar to a total-market index fund but with fossil fuels removed, and it only has a very slight increase in management fees compared to their standard index funds (I think it's expense ratio is 0.09).

However, like many index funds, it's invested heavily into Nvidia, Google, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, etc. So a lot of that investment money isn't going to ethical companies, and if the AI bubble pops, those funds will be hit fairly hard (along with the whole market).