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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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Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have. (www.nytimes.com)
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But around the US, utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition, and they are probably using your money to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it does not make sense. Renewable energy projects get cheaper financing from banks and in form of green bonds. However oil companies will be treated as fossil fuel companies regardless of the project. So they will spend more on setting up renewables, then if the government set up a proper green energy company and gave them the money from the oil company. That is why these promises are in most cases nothing but greenwashing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not in my country. We even have a special line destined towards helping people buy and install solar energy in their homes. Also our electric grid is entirely shared between the entire country.