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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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If there was ever a moment for Australia’s shift to renewables and EVs, this is it (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perth to Dunsborough is 250km. What EVs were you looking at that can’t make that distance in a single charge?

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah agreed. I have family in Duns and they got a BYD Seal and only charge at each end of their trip to Perth. Gero is another story, but you'd likely be stopping along the way anyway. Its still ~420 km from Perth so that's still well within the range of an EV.