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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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‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sure you meant clean coal, right?

But I do know someone who works in solar panels installation in the US and says business is pretty good and firm has been growing!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's good to hear.

In Germany the jobs in the coal industry needed protection. At the same time the solar sector was reduced drastically over the last ten years and the jobs went abroad.

Edit: i don't know what you mean with "clean coal"