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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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The Great COP Co-opting: New Documents Show Big Oil Has Been There All Along | As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start. (drilled.media)
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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 10 hours ago

Because our systems are built up to represent lobbyists and elites not people.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

Nationalizing oil companies in US/west is needed due to their climate terrorist lobbying. Many other oligarchs/industries corrupt rulership, but it is clear that FFs are incompatible with the high cost of US democracy.