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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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US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On a practical level, that will probably not happen for a long time. My understanding is that most high performance lubrication is petroleum-based, even if only in part. We'd have to find alternative sources for those lubricants before we could completely drop oil.

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

We have natural oils and we are good enough in organic chemistry to turn that into what we need. The amounts needed are so small that it basically does not matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not being pedantic, but do you have examples of natural oils that we could use as viable replacements? I would seriously love to learn about them.