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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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Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing | Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are just starting (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Currently, the things driving climate change are extremely profitable. Oil companies make billions if not trillions of dollars per year in profit. And some companies have even made climate change itself profitable by selling things like carbon offsets (which are just tickets to keep polluting) and does nothing to actually address the problem.
We're not going to see any meaningful push for climate mitigation until climate change starts hurting wealthy people in their wallets.
The problem is, by the time these investment properties start getting swallowed up by the sea the ball is already rolling too fast to do anything about it.
When the rich start panicking about climate change we know we're fucked.

[โ€“] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/010715/worlds-top-10-oil-companies.asp

Data is 6 months old but total profit at the time for TTM was $350B across all ten top oil companies.