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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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‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] MrMakabar 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are 2360 dollar billionaires in the world and 211,275 people with a net worth of over 30 million dollars. The 100 super-rich families are way to few.

Other then that we could do something like CBAM. Every country without a wealth tax has to pay extra tarrifs, for all goods and products sold to countries that are members. Get the US, EU or China on board with that and we will say a lot more taxes. Tax heavens can be bullied.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Tax heavens can be bullied.

They can also be taken over and all the assets seized. Ending the global money laundry would to a long way towards normalising politics.