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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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German business, politicians call for 5-year delay in climate targets (dpa-international.com)
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[–] tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Instead of 2045, Germany should adopt the European target year of 2050 ... Germany's current special path of aiming to become climate-neutral five years earlier than the European Union makes the country more expensive as a business location without achieving any additional climate impact.

It would be better if the world would move toward the German goal rather than the other way around.

But the world doesn't seem to want that, particularly the world's biggest emitters: the U.S. seems to quit any emissions reductions at all, and China aims to reach carbon neutrality in 2060, ten years later than the EU (yet China is hailed as the global leader in climate change actions).

The world isn't on a good path, but I somehow feel Germany isn't the biggest problem here.