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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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Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Wanna bet that fossil fuel have some undiscovered scientific secrets that we will miss because we used it all.

Same with all the rare life in the rainforests.

We are actively crippling the future of mankind, for wha? To go to work to exploiting corporations and to buy things made at the unapologetically unsustainable expensive of our planet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Petrochemicals are a large component in organic chemistry and types of polymers. So preservation of those materials simply for retaining as a chemical reagent is important than just burning the material.