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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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Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals (www.propublica.org)
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The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.

This is the exact opposite of perpetrator-pays that applies to any other crime.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

For sure, Biden supported oil expansion through war, but this is very bad.

There is an alternative to regulatory approval burden. Carbon tax and dividend that rebates to consumers so that both producers can reduce emissions to provide better value, and consumers can avoid products that don't, and get cash available to invest in alternatives.

$300/ton ($3/gallon gasoline) instead of $190/ton is a price that creates a sufficient incentive and ($4000+/year) dividend that both helps with poverty and with alternate energy investments. Musk, while doing some hateful stuff, has expressed pushes for UBI/dividends previously and recently. It's always been the best approach, and becomes a non-discretionary-budget government item.

In terms of mainstream political responses, there needs to be a threat of nationalizing without compensation climate terrorist energy companies. Regulation has always been corrupted by lobbying and the purchased democratic outcomes that destroy that approach.