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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I feel like carbon taxes may be needed on some level in the US (and other parts of the world) as they force corporations to seek out less polluting alternatives/reduce use of fossil fuels.

It won't 100% stop climate change but it could make quite a change

Also I feel like money collected from carbon taxes should be put towards helping those impacted by climate change, or fund solutions for climate change, directly or indirectly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

A carbon tax doesn't have anything like the votes needed for passage in the US, even though it would be the most right-wing of possible effective climate policies.