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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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There's overwhelming US support for action on our climate. Why that hasn't mattered. (www.msnbc.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some certainly do...but not all, and you can overcome the lobbyist-favoring bias if something gets clear press coverage. It's a big deal that the press very rarely explains that the bulk of the problem is due to fossil fuel burning.

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The same people that own the lobbyist also own mainstream media soooo ...

It's just the expected behavior of capitalism.

[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

Most media serves lobbyists coz advertising money and business relationships. They anyway wouldn't want to do explainers coz that wouldn't get views