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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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Exxon Says Trump Should Keep U.S. in Paris Climate Pact (www.wsj.com)
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This is quite surely about some combination of greenwashing and desire to have a seat at the table to interfere with negotiations, rather than any kind of sincere desire to go along with decarbonization.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The bigger oil and gas companies want just enough regulation to make it easier for them to force out smaller companies for whom hitting these targets is more difficult, but no more than that. These big companies often are so vertically integrated that they can design systems across sectors of the industry that do actually emit less than older equipment segmented by lots of smaller companies. It's a sad fact that increasing climate protections tends to consolidate oil and gas corporate power into fewer and bigger companies because it's going to make the last mile of the transition from fossil fuels that much harder.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

They also have the ability to use reforestation to offset carbon output, which is total bs.