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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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Global carmakers retreat en masse from electric vehicle plans (www.ft.com)
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Meanwhile, the showrooms of the Chinese makers who are making electric vehicles fill up with customers

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what the auto union employees think of this? Do they realize that their bosses are slowly putting them out of work?

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes the UAW is very aware of the fact that the current push to end EVs in the USA will result in worse conditions. They put out a white paper in March 2021 about how the transition to EVs could benefit workers.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago

Worse conditions or just unemployed?

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 4 points 23 hours ago

Kowtowing to China? The only reason China's EV sales dipped last year was because people had more non-Chinese options. Oil is dead, all my homies buy electric.

[–] Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I like it when assholes make mistakes! Sorry for the people working for them though...