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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@silence7 I am increasingly convinced that the goal of large oil companies is not to make money, but instead to cause maximal harm to as many people as possible.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @silence7
Rather that they have all the money they could ever need already, so now they work towards power and control. Same as with most mega corporations, they've gotten so big that the rules of the market are different for them. It's like with Alphabet pumping absurd amounts of money into YouTube, it's not about making their money back, it's about gaining the monopoly on video content and exercising control over you. These energy companies don't have such an easy way to start influencing people as tech companies though, who can just start censoring and promoting whatever they will.