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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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Nuclear push would drag out energy transition, PM warns (www.thenewdaily.com.au)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Burning coal, what we badly need to transition off of, also produces more radioactive waste than a nuclear plant too.

God I wish all our worthless politicians weren't in the coal companies pockets

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If by that you mean the liberal party that are continuing to push anything possible other than renewable energy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We had a solution for that though. Things like the carbon tax would have had a meaningful impact. And then the libs managed to make it toxic so it can't be reintroduced

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Carbon tax is the only thing that would have made "carbon capture" viable. So the one tool they are trying to rely on, they directly destroyed themselves.