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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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Australia accused of ‘exporting climate destruction’ on tiny Pacific neighbours with massive gas expansion plans (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 211@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything I know of Australian energy policies I learned from Honest Government Ads, so correctly accused.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They are great ads too.

I say this ironically on a tiny pacific island where I'm working on an Australian owned gold mine

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You are the problem

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, shame I spend my days teaching the locals how to do what I do.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

grass accused of being green