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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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China Is the Adult in the Room on Climate Now (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I fully agree. Meanwhile USA is drill baby drill

[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep, and it’s a stupid ass decision. Even if you bought into the idea that America needs to be dominant in the energy sector for the next century, they’re completely ceding that position to China. The future of energy is not in combustion, it’s in renewables. And America seems to have no desire to lead the world on that front

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I'm no tankie, but I've been saying for well over a decade, the 21st century is China's century. It's just history. America has fallen, China has been rising, and China has been planning and governing for a decades-long uprising.