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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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US Supreme Court Judge Sam Alito has an oil money problem | 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels. (heated.world)
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[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Just sell it. 1 phone call.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So long a he holds it, he is supposed to recuse himself from cases that affect those stocks. This has meant one less vote in the Supreme Court in favor of the oil industry

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Has he actually done that though?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 17 hours ago

In the past, yes, but not this time

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who had recused himself in a prior petition in the Boulder case (possibly because he owned stock in ConocoPhillips) did not indicate that he would be recusing himself from the case. ConocoPhillips, which is not named in the Boulder case, is a defendant in other climate lawsuits.