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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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Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (news.mongabay.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's an industry in cutting down forests in the southeast US to create wood pellets, which are then shipped to Europe and burned as "green"

[–] 3volver@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That hurts my brain. We made it to the fucking moon, figured out nuclear power, and yet we have people doing that shit? Reality is an amazing inequitable shit show.

[–] tlf@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I know people who argue that burning wood pellets is grean because it's marketed as "renewable". It's difficult to convince them that the wood their burning is not part of a renewable cycle and neither is it just wood scraps that would be there anyways. Same as growing "biofuel" for consumer cars. It's just not a good use of the limited resources we have