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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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Who should pay for climate solutions? The debate is heating up (www.latimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The biggest polluters should, like oil and gas industries. They've profited off the destruction, they should pay their fair share in cleaning it up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You have to legislate that they can't pass the expense on to consumers, or they'll just pass the expense on to consumers. And that's where it hits a wall, because all of the conservatives go fucking ballistic when you start talking about the government mandating how a business should run, despite the fact that they're perfectly okay with all of the anti-competitive laws that the big business got passed to keep them in absolute control over everything.