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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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Leading UK climate scientists warn against new North Sea drilling | Intervention comes as political pressure rises for British government response to energy crisis caused by Iran war (app.ft.com)
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[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Drilling more north sea oil would be so dumb.

  1. it'll take ages to come online
  2. it won't lower prices because it'll just go on the international market
  3. the oil field is running out anyway
  4. all the climate issues
[–] Ddub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I thought this was a fossil fuels crisis, and the biggest thing to worry about was oil derived fertilizer shortage. Ild rather a full belly than being able to drive my electric car hundreds of km