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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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IEA Think Tank Contributes to Climate Science Denial Documentary (www.desmog.com)
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A detailed discussion of how they spent a lot of time engaged in repeating well-worn falsehoods is here

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For the confused, the article is talking about the Institute for Economic Affairs IEA, a neoconservative think thank focusing on free market economics, and not the more well known International Energy Agency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was actually confused why IKEA was contributing somehow forming a connection between them and large scale logging.. until I read your comment and re-read the title.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ya, I read a lot about disasters so when I first read it added an A and thought it was referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA) which studies and helps clean up after radiation incidents like broken or stolen radioactive medical equipment, reactor excursions, and other such incidents.

After I reread the acronym I was like I could swear the IEA was an energy agency that published a lot of stats on green energy and yet their talking about neoconservative economics?

At least think tanks like The (White) Heritage Foundation have somewhat memorable names and don’t use a legitimate organization’s name.