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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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The Well Watchers | There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up. (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago

Classic conservative mindset of "I don't care about ruining the environment unless it's my local environment".

But you know, sometimes you'll have to take the allies you can get in this fight.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 15 points 1 hour ago

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the number of abandoned oil and gas wells in the US at about 3.9 million, with 2.2 million unplugged.

Holy fuck, I had no idea there were that many. That's absolutely crazy to think about.

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 8 points 1 hour ago

Tldr: they do it through political action and social media