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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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An $88 Million Satellite Died Early—and Still Blew the Lid Off Industry Emissions (gizmodo.com)
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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

MethaneSat, an $88 million satellite [owned by the Environmental Defense Fund] designed to track methane emissions at an unprecedented scale and resolution, suddenly went dark in July. It only survived about 15 months of its planned five years in orbit…

I’ve got an unfounded conspiracy theory about government/military meddling relating to this outcome.