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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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What if Everyone Did Something to Slow Climate Change? Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tell that to the marketing team BP hired to say the same thing you’re saying.

[–] capital@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Notice this response isn’t “that’s wrong and here’s why” it’s “someone else also said this”.

Even if it were true that I was repeating BP taking points, that’s not a good reason to discount it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

To help drive the point home, how many widgets will a company make if no one is buying them anymore?

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

What’s more realistic to change? A few dozen companies or billions of people?

Obviously it is easier to change the companies. That is why fossil fuel companies pay marketing companies to shift the responsibility onto billions of people. Because they know it will never succeed.

So whether you are a fossil fuel shill or not, you are doing the work of a fossil fuel shill.