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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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Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] Natanael 1 points 1 week ago

Our commitments were made when we DIDN'T have a government coalition of dumbass rightwingers, neoliberals, evangelicals, and neonazis in poor disguise.

Now we do have that coalition, and they're pretending climate change isn't real.

In the name of saving costs, they're killing programs which have been massive cost savers with huge ROI, and thus creating costs. Undoing wildlife management which increase costs and reduce revenue for farmers, undoing climate goals which even the car industry wants in place, removing regulations which made the industry better, etc.

Regressive assholes