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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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Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find (www.uvm.edu)
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[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Kinda hard to use them if they're banned

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Small businesses have a tendency to just do whatever the hell they want, and usually they get away with it. Idk if there is some way of claiming its a financial hardship or something to legally avoid it, but it happens a lot.

Case in point, I just bought takeout from a place that gave it to me using a plastic bag and styrofoam, and both of those things are banned in this town/state

[–] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Much harder for large chains that mom and pop kinda food places.

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