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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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After 30 years of waiting, Cop28 deal addresses the elephant in the room | He was personally vilified, but Sultan Al Jaber has managed what no other Cop presidency has ever done (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which is? What a clickbait title

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Both. It calls for a "transition away from fossil fuels" when even getting a mention of fossil fuels has been well-neigh impossible, and it's nonbinding and it has a lot of language in it that suggests that fossil fuels can still be used.

The world isn't a simple black-and-white place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The world isn't a simple black-and-white place.

No, I get that, but the title of the article is just so vague I didn't even want to click the link anymore 😅 thanks for the clarification now!