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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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US Democrats urge Brussels to stick to methane rules (www.euronews.com)
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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago

C'mon Colombia! Stop burning candles and tires!

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any advice coming from the US should be ignored, self serving entitled scumbags run that shithole

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 0 points 15 hours ago

Not in this case. The advise was given by democrats and is directly opposed to the interests of MAGA and fossil fuel interests. The bad advise actually came from other EU states.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Counter point - we should do everything possible to stop using methane.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You lay off of my meth. Oh wait ... never mind.