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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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US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds (phys.org)
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[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, nothing that bribing politicians can't fix

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It’s all already in motion. This is the result of the bribes

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

And they have NO idea how gassy I am. I'm destroying the environment all by myself.

[–] BzzBiotch@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I too fart a lot! Just like this guy here 👆🏻 No energy production though…

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Hey now, clearing the room is actually a lot of work for such little effort.