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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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Lessons From the Coal Boom That Didn’t Happen (www.wri.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Corporate hype is garbage spread by sleaze merchants?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Useful insight, especially country-specific part, thanks for link. Coal is still too high, but maybe we should look at seasonal usage, not assume 'operational' = always on. For example in China, they might be keeping excess coal capacity for occasional use during extra-cold winters ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Be aware, that when coal power plant is phased out, it might not necessarily mean that it was decommissioned - at least some of the installations are repurposed for natural gas or oil