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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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G7 countries agree to shut all their coal power plants within the next 10 years (theprogressplaybook.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What are the exceptions? There’s always exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The exception is that this is just about coal and electricity/heating and only in the G7 countries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Except if y'all forget about the promise, in time for us to make another 10 year goal!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

None that I can tell. Digging up and burning coal is a fairly expensive way to generate electricity, and the particulates it produces kill a lot of people. So its in peoples' interest to put a stop to it.