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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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"Carbon bomb" financiers threaten world's ability to curb warming (www.motherjones.com)
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[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

That's not going to do nearly enough. We need prison terms for people who are responsible for greenlighting these investments. Just look at that BNP quote โ€” it's probably the most concrete of all the quotes and even they feel like they're doing the right thing by pouring 20% of their money for energy into fossil projects by 2030. The rest of them had no statement or were even worse, using "energy security" as code for fossil energy.