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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 Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, claims that the IPCC says there has been no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts – but Wright is wrong. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It should be criminally punishable for public servants to blatantly lie like this. I don't mean little white lies should be illegal. I don't mean that statements where there is even a smidge of room for disagreement should be illegal. I mean that big, damaging, blatantly disprovable lies should be illegal.

In this case, he is saying that the IPCC has said the exact opposite of what the IPCC has said. He is lying about something that can be found in black and white in the IPCC reports.