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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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Europe’s ‘staggering’ clean power gains undermined by failure to phase out fuel-burning machines | The EU’s reluctance to replace petrol cars and gas boilers keep it hooked on foreign fuels (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] manxu@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

I am not sure it's really reluctance, more the fact that petrol cars and gas boilers are owned by citizens who have rights and it takes a while to convince them.

EU governments could certainly do more to incentivize, that is for sure. They also need to improve electricity infrastructure to deal with the increased demand. And they definitely should not be listening to car manufacturers scared that Chinese competitors are going to eat their lunch with cheaper, better EVs.

But at least it's not like they are cutting off EV subsidies or shutting down wind farm production, no?