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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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Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should be illegal to teach science in Texas? Oil and gas were created by God, it's His will that we burn it.

Thy will be done, amen.

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 10 points 2 years ago

Alex Jones literally believes this. He says it's our duty to pump as much carbon in to the air as possible and that oil and "clean" coal are how we are supposed to do it.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It's a fight they already fought with the teaching of evolution. Now they're doing it again on behalf of multi-billion dollar oil companies, rather than the church.