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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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Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (www.bbc.com)
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[–] li10@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We complain about the countries that extract the oil and the countries that burn it to make products, but ignore the fact that they do it for us…

You won’t ever see politicians telling individual people to stop buying so much crap though, because that’s their right and it would hurt the economy…

[–] heird@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've spent millions to keep us dependent on oil and killed innovative projects, they should pay a tax