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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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Investigate fossil fuel industry, top Democrats urge justice department | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Jamie Raskin highlight decades-long efforts to sow doubts about climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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Video of the press conference is here

What they did was basically establish (under oath, with document trail) that the fossil fuel industry executives knew about the damage that burning fossil fuels did, and decided to cover it up, rather than be forthright with people and legislators. They're now referring this to the justice department to see if prosecution is possible.

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[–] JGcEowt4YXuUtkBUGHoN@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When it comes to this ecocide, I’m not entirely opposed to mob justice for these fuckers (oil and gas executives and the fuckers who promoted their lies).