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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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Banning fossil fuels is now a make-or-break issue at climate talks | Many countries want a rapid phaseout of oil, gas and coal, but major powers — notably Saudi Arabia — are strongly resisting (wapo.st)
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[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Perhaps but the answer to is have a clear goal to get off of reliance of fossil fuels. This doesn't mean that it would be banned next week. Via subsidizing products, development and creating a near guaranteed market, there would be a lot of motivation to create alternatives that work.

What is at issue is that there is a lack of a date in many of these proposed phase-outs. A deadline and milestones are supremely important.