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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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Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime. (www.oxfam.org)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If you check out elonjet on mastodon it shows his fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Tons of co2 per flight. Thousands of gallons of fuel.

To go 15 minutes away.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children) 
15 mile (13 NM) flight from KEDC to AUS

~ 85 gallons (322 liters). 
~ 571 lbs (259 kg) of jet fuel used. 
~ $477 cost of fuel. 
~ 0.8991 tons of CO2 emissions.

15 miles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now do the other hop skip and jump flights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What about a barrel roll?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

... what

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Reddit would probably ban me for what I think should happen to him, but thank goodness we are on Lemm.ee and the fediverse doesn’t seem to like him.

How many liters of fuel can be produced by pressing Elon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm bad at math, let's do it to find out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Georgism makes most sense when applied to pollution. Determining prices is the only question.

Now if you employ georgism anyway, maybe it would make sense in other contexts, no?

I'm still trying to sell libertarianism to folks in the Interwebs, yah, just like Jehova's witnesses do.