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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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Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% (www.carbonbrief.org)
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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was reading that EV take up has flattened China’s petroleum use. There is a bit of light in there this sad story.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Which really just means the world could do better, it just chooses not to.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Politics, money, selfishness and comfort mean we will need things to get a lot worse before the masses take the problem seriously. Until then we will have to do what we can. At least growth in fossils has been contained somewhat.