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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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US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
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Most of this is on private land or involves leases of federal land and water already issued. Because the US courts consider the right to drill a property right, you can't just ban it outright without replacing justices on the Supreme Court first.

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[โ€“] ChaosCharlie@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we the baddies?

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The key thing is that the international carbon accounting rules assign blame to the one who burns it, not to the one who extracts it. So the US has a bunch of policies in place to cut fossil fuel burning, but is shifting to exports instead of phasing out extraction.