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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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How to make polluters pay | A new Vermont bill would create a “climate superfund.” (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As nice as these proposals are I doubt it will change anything. Why change their ways when they can not pay millions to changes internal processes and only pay a couple tens of thousands a year in ~~fines~~ contributions.

Until management and executives level employees are helt personally liable for the actions taken nothing will change.

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

And that won't change until corporations aren't legally considered as individuals.