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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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UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying (www.theguardian.com)
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Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change who presents her damning new report to the general assembly in Geneva on Monday, argues that the US, UK, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuel nations are legally obliged under international law to fully phase out oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate communities for harms caused.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only should disinformation and misinformation of this type be illegal, the people running the companies need to be personally held accountable for their actions.

Fuck limited liability corporations.

Those people know exactly what they are doing and use this legal fiction as a shield for their barbarity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want people going to jail for planning murders 30-50 years in advance because that's literally what every lying piece of shit oil and gas company did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

And their estates are stolen wealth that needs to be confiscated. Their grandkids can be a bunch of working stiffs like us.