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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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New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal | Ruling right-wing coalition votes to reverse ban (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

Of course because there is too much of this world not fucked up yet, we can do better!

[–] rimu@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They did this last time they were in power too, 10 years ago. Exploration companies came and searched everywhere for years but didn't find anything. An oil rig circled the whole country, drilling exploratory wells.

They can't seriously think this time will be different. This is just asshole-signaling.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

asshole-signaling I table a motion to call that farting henceforth

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago

Talk about the wrong side of history.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

Shame!