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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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Countries are rethinking U.S. fossil fuels after Iran war | As economies in Asia and Europe reel, leaders make plans to replace imported oil and gas with homegrown energy. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds good but I'm not paying Bezos' WaPo to read this article.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Bezos is welcome to make me an offer for my registration data.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

"replace imported oil and gas with homegrown energy." if they had home grown energy available they would already be using it.

You can't just plant a windmill just anywhere, and the same goes for hydro and solar. It has to be where the wind blows, the water flows and the sun shines. Kind of like the fifth element. China has coal to oil conversion, but they have been exploiting coal for so long they are running low. And as much as I like electric transportation, it can't run a farm tractor, or 18 wheeler at the scale they need it.