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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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Why billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targets (theconversation.com)
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[โ€“] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Billionaires will not do this. They will make excuses about carbon footprint and sharing their private jets with their friend's cats.

Billionaires do not give. They take. And eventually they want to look like they give. So they give to what they want to appear to be.

But 99.999% of billionaires won't give away anything other than ill-informed opinions.

And anything we frame to them will be thought of in terms of:

  1. what do we know; we are not billionaires
[โ€“] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 8 points 10 months ago

We, the billionaires, propose reducing our carbon footprint by -200%

Yup, I expect nothing good from them