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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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World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending resources to climate change projects (www.reuters.com)
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Executive directors including France and 18 other shareholding countries had signed a letter last October ‌endorsing the ⁠bank's continued work on climate change, but the largest shareholder, the United States, declined to sign, along with executive directors representing Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, while India and Japan abstained.

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[–] Quasit@beige.party 5 points 7 hours ago

@silence7
The World Bank must be abolished.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Let's not pretend it was ever a force for good, just a force for capitalism.