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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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Opinion | Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy’ [a hybrid model of green energy and fossil fuels, wedged together side by side.] It’s Time for Something Different. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 day ago

no worries as we will be back to fossil fuels any day now and years from now if we get someone better and they get us back to the hybrid thing folks will say they are not doing enough and let the bad ones in again. rinse and repeat. one or two steps forward and one or two steps back.