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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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Big Oil Will Exploit This Trillion-Dollar Loophole Until Someone Closes It (www.splinter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Super strange that a corporation can successfully be remunerated for a change in policy, when the policy is question is hard reduction for a concept that Exxon has been aware of for 50 years

They claim that the government under former prime minister Mark Rutte took “unilateral measures that arbitrarily disadvantaged ExxonMobil as an investor” — they closed the gas field, and we don’t get to make money anymore.

Seems like if Exxon is going to talk out of both sides of their mouth, they should be sanctioned for misleading investors about the risks of their products.