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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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U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gas (wapo.st)
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A new rule restricts releases of methane from companies that have leases to extract fossil fuels from federal lands

This is exactly the kind of thing that you see Democratic administrations do, but not Republican ones.

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[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Silly. The limit should be 0. You can take no gas that you don't pay for. You can vent/leak no methane except for emergencies, some tiny fraction of leak/well or pipe distance. If you flare gas you have to pay for both the gas you took and the lost utility of the gas to other users.

And that's not even getting to addressing climate issues.