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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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Western Australia is set to record its highest ever gas emissions as net zero looks unlikely, secret report finds (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Hardly: the key thing to understand is that renewables kick out enormous amounts of energy compared what it takes to create wind turbines and solar panels โ€” more than a lot of oil fields do today. This makes it possible to create an economy which is based on extracting wind and sunlight, instead of materials which stored energy.