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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 compact SUVs now create less pollution, on average, than sedans, thanks to the rapid rise of small electric SUVs. (wapo.st)
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The picture would of course look very different if manufacturers had chosen to make smaller inexpensive electric sedans.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Aaand that's several more paragraphs on condescension.

So what I'm getting is this: your problem is that I didn't write my comment in the form of a watertight essay, while discarding any mention of anything that is unlikely to occur in the immediate future?

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t have a problem, I’m just explaining why when you start talking about the far future in reply to a problem in the here and now without any mention that’s what your doing you shouldn’t be surprised someone might think you were talking about a reasonable solution to that problem and explain some of the barriers to that solution.

Still it’s getting late, and we are off topic from off topic and dominating the comments on something completely unrelated to the conversation, so we should probably leave things here.

I apologize if I was to snarky in response to the rhetorical questions, and I do hope you have a lovely day/night.