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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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Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo | Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 7 points 2 weeks ago

Perfect is not the enemy of good.

Bill Gates is neither perfect, nor good. There are no good billionaires. In this case, the billionaire whose boots you are deepthroating just released a memo to influence the COP30 international climate summit in Brazil by dismissing the seriousness of climate change. This is the same billionaire who has scrubbed climate change essays from his websites. This is the same billionaire that downplays the importance of clean, renewable energy. This is the also the same billionaire that has billions in investments in fossil fuels. Do you have billions of investments in fossil fuels? Can you even find ten people in your city who do?

Now, I don't know if your comment is born out of ignorance or pure maliciousness, but all you're doing is boosting the misinformation that Gates has been spreading for the past several years. The absolute gall you have to come to a comm about climate change to peddle your anti-environmental activism is disgusting.

You should be ashamed.