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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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An Oil Company Is Trespassing on Tribal Land in Wisconsin, Justice Dept. Says | Enbridge, a Canadian company, “lacks any legal right” to operate its Line 5 pipeline on reservation territory (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Another thing that needs to go is Canadians going, "We're better than the US!"

Not only is that a low bar that people use to ignore genuine problems, it also ignores how our police, government, corporations, etc. are actually about as bad, just better at hiding it

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

CIRG have entered the chat