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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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Nations Are Undercounting Emissions, Putting UN Goals at Risk (e360.yale.edu)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I love the spam shit, let's me know I'm on the good content.

Anyways

Even back in the Kyoto days every nations military has been considered exempt. Conservative estimates I've read are that a nations military can be estimated at a one to one with the civilian sector on pollution, or in America's case, the roughly ~1million soldiers pollute as much as the 350million civilians.

Kyoto's projections were based solely off civilian output, effectively always reporting on and only tracking half the global pollution.

It was sandbagged from the start. Boomers never had any intention of actually working on the issue, it's all just more of the media shell game, like plastic recycling.

Evil. Plain and simple. Such short sightedness, greed and condescention. If sacrificing liability of the environment for future generations, all for fleeting material gain in the present, doesn't meet the threshold for evil then evil just doesn't exist.