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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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How smaller, more affordable electric cars can accelerate the green transition (theconversation.com)
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[–] mimemachina@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

lol maybe i should've explained

The Broom of the Sysem is a novel by David Foster Wallace and the main character drives a cheap micro-car made of plastic produced by toy-manifacturer Mattel. I thought of this because of the size shrinkage of EVs and the affordability pointed in the article, even if I don't think the car in the book was electric.

good book btw