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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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Michigan accuses big oil of being ‘cartel’ that fuels climate crisis and high energy costs (www.theguardian.com)
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In first-of-its-kind complaint, state accused four fossil fuel majors and US oil lobbying group of climate disinformation

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

And then? The oil execs aren't remotely concerned.

I recently had to go to Exxon HQ in Houston. Oil money is so insanely large, all of the shit we bitch about with tech money pales by comparison.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Why do you think tech is sucking up to government? They want to replace those oil money influences with their own opinions and schemes. Oil is waning and tech is on the rise. It's also why they so aggressively try to keep oil relevant, because they are making shit tons of money from it. It doesn't help "us" in any way, we could easily all be driving electric and powered by renewables.