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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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China On Track To Meet 2030 Renewable Energy Targets By The End Of 2024 - The Renewable Energy Institute (www.renewableinstitute.org)
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[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

One of the few positiv things about dictatorships and at the same time negative about democracy, speed of government actions.

Dictatorship: boss: house burns, go firefighting!

Democracy: scientists: house burns, politician: yeah i don't believe you because the voters don't like when i do.

Sad truth is, the average voter is stupid.

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

In my opinion, there are greater influences than voter turnout on climate policy. The corporate lobbying, aggressive PR, and disinformation has influenced the state more than any vote. There have historically been no candidates to even vote for that cared about global warming.

And the oil and gas corporations themselves have influenced voters in the same way. Embedding oil into masculinity, lack of global warming discussion in the monopolized media outlets, etc.... Attempts to keep information and awareness from the average voter and make us doubt global warming and even defend oil companies.

IMO, the American state's impulse to protect capital and monopoly is the primary reason the climate response has been so poor.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's great, but they are also installing a majority of the world's new coal power plants at the same time. In 2023 they installed about 300GW of renewables and 50GW of coal.