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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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What the oil industry doesn’t want you to know - Stephanie Honchell Smith (www.youtube.com)
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TED-Ed

Uncover the oil industry’s decades-long campaign to discredit climate change science regarding the danger of fossil fuels.

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Throughout the 1980s, oil industry reps discussed the dangers of burning fossil fuels, acknowledging the risk their product posed to the future of humanity. However, instead of warning the public or pivoting towards renewable energy sources, they doubled down on oil — and launched a decades-long campaign to discredit climate change science. Stephanie Honchell Smith digs into Big Oil's tactics.

Lesson by Stephanie Honchell Smith, directed by Sofia Pashaei.

This video made possible in collaboration with Speed & Scale

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Weird to see what we knew for decades be transformed into a six minute animation because the right wing was so utterly successful in confusing people.