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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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Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025 | Foundation says it ‘does not endorse any organizations’ while funneling hundreds of thousands to rightwing causes (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of major corporations have a non-profit that makes a bunch of grants in their name for PR purposes. In Shell's case, they serve as part of the right-wing patronage machine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

And then right wing gets to power and hands them a tax cut.

Its what i said, they stink to much for PR to matter whats left is a non profit that is a long term for profit investment trough politics.

I do appreciatie the technical explanation though. And i know there are plenty of corpos that pull that very same shit.