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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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[–] pumpsnabben@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

These kinds of frivolous lawsuits won't lead to anything and as far as I know none of them has ever been decided in favor of the complaints.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are hundreds of climate lawsuits working through the courts worldwide due to the fraud the fossil fuels industry engaged in to prevent meaningful climate action decades ago. They haven't been decided in favor of the complaints yet because only one has made it to trial (and still isn't decided yet)

[–] pumpsnabben@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems like you are confusing the lawsuits.

This one, and others, are against governments and not companies.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah. The government-targeting ones tend to be because governments aren't following their own rules. It's not a bad way to proceed