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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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Epstein Is Shaking the Climate World, Too | A major funder of the Earthshot Prize has been linked to the convicted sex offender. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

IS THERE ANYONE NOT CONNECTED TO EPSTEIN!?!?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

Yes. Lots of people. Mostly the not-rich

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

Not the NYTimes as far as I can tell, they are pulling punches on everything epstein, whether just to protect Israel or I suspect that they are on them. Seriously, notice how they haven't published a single big story this administration? When has that ever happened, when they didn't publish the big scandal or a corrupt administration? Never before.

Between their not publishing much at all of Epstein's connections to Israeli intelligence, and pulling punches on the president, I would suspect they, editors/owners idk, made a deal with the president to keep their people redacted from the files released in exchange for favorable-ish coverage.