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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 faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they're moving closer to trial (grist.org)
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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't exactly recall, but I don't think big tobacco ended up being heavily regulated until after a handful of really big lawsuits. Hopefully this is big oil's big tobacco moment.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

I hope they get nationalized.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

May we all be warmed and fuelled by the burning of these companies in place of their product.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bigwigs never pay, the companies may be trashed, but those responsible will get away scot free

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's why I left it at "companies," and even that much would be a monumental achievement...

[–] sevan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

That's funny! Next they should face a heatwave of climate lawsuits...