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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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Climate Change’s $150 Billion Hit to the U.S. Economy | Consequences will worsen unless more is invested in clean energy and cities adapt to changing environments, a federal report finds (www.wsj.com)
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[–] sour@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

switching from fossil fuels is bad for the economy

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's actually a lot better than burning the fossil fuels as we see here

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Also worth noting that solar and storage tends to be cheaper than fossil energy, which leads to the economic benefits of cheaper energy even before considering that value in most green technologies comes from high tech and manufacturing work, not mostly from the raw resource. As the scale of entire nations, a rapid green transition is fundamentally a economic boom, similar to the government funded economic boom of the late forties and fifties in the us.