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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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Increasing taxes on polluting activities and cutting fossil fuel subsidies could generate trillions of dollars to tackle climate change, an advisory panel to the COP28 talks in Dubai said. (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like.. this is obvious.

[–] Bakkoda 2 points 1 year ago

Burning money and giving it away leads to lack of money. More tonight at 11.

[–] sweetcuppincakes 3 points 1 year ago

I hope the world's decision-makers listen to this panel. We need to take drastic measures, starting with the common-sense solution of taxing destructive things and using the money for additional solutions to the climate crisis.

[–] JohnDClay 3 points 1 year ago

Since the US will still want to promote domestic oil production for national security, maybe they can start taxing foreign oil more heavy rather than propping up domestic oil? That way they still get security, but oil prices also go up likely decreasing consumption.