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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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We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising? (www.vox.com)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because we keep emitting?

There's no mystery to this, there's too much money in petroleum for too many people for us to just stop using it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

we just need to use natural gas as a bridge fuel trust me, let's just build pipelines and special refineries and special cargo ships that can handle these new fossil fuel supply chains. just a bridge fuel though just until solar catches up don't worry they're just multi decade leases of course we're going to hit net zero trust me just use gas it's clean burning trust me just ship the gas across the world it's the greenest choice there is just trust me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just one more petroleum derivative fuel bro, one more and I promise we'll be off of it for good trust me bro just one more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It's hilarious how fracking is not seen as the junkie desperation it plainly is, hunting round their body to get the needle into a usable vein. Pumping in shit to eke out another hit even though it poisons the land.