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Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock (www.theguardian.com)
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Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters

The key problem with the UN COP process is that it can only act by consensus, which in practice is usually treated as requiring unanimity. So you can Saudi Arabia or the US to block any meaningful shift away from fossil fuels.

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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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