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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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Exxon's CEO is literally gaslighting us on climate change (www.msnbc.com)
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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 44 points 8 months ago

Not sure why we would even bother with hearing what an oil CEO has to say about this.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

“I’m 60, the world will burn in 30 years. It’s too late to do anything now, and I’ll be dead by the time it gets bad, why don’t you all just go live out your lives on your yachts and eat cake all day like I’m going to do?”

[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Despicable! The people who are burning the Earth have names and addresses.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago

And their heads are still attached unfortunatley

[–] Greens@beehaw.org 15 points 8 months ago

but its CEO says that consumers should “pay the price.”

AKA: we are about to raise our pricing and blame some greenwashing initiatives that we aren’t actually going to do.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Must we acknowledge that these companies made petroleum products for consumers, who are us and our parents? Yes.

Can we acknowledge that they have systemically lobbied to delay adoption of technological alternatives? Also yes.

Should we be surprised a CEO of any company, when given a podium, takes the chance to defend his business, and pass off negatives to literally anyone else? Absolutely not.