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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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Many Hoped Senate Republicans Would Save Clean Energy. They Mostly Didn’t. (www.nytimes.com)
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A Senate tax package softens some blows imposed on renewables by a House version of the bill. But it still terminates many credits for clean power.

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[–] VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago

🐸 bro i really hope you don't sting me and kill us both this time, the 1000th time

🦂 idk why you hope that but ok

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

I was gonna do shocked pikachu face, but he’s gotta roll coal now, poor guy.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago

The US is an oil exporter and is e.g. trying to keep the shale oil industry alive at a cost. It will be one of the last places to decarbonize.