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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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Canada is burning, so why is our national pension fund still heavily into fossil fuels? (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Fossil fuels make money, but so do renewables and a lot of other companies, which use energy much less directly. The issue is that a national pension fund is a government institution and the Canadian government gets a very real conflict of intresst between fighting climate change and paying pensions. So it is much better to invest in other fields. It does not have to be renewables.