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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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Puerto Rico files $1 billion suit against fossil fuel companies (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only way to damage the big companies is with proportional fines.

You destroy the environment? 50% of your income gained in every country goes to those countries. I don't know why this isn't being advocated anywhere because measuring income is easy, the company has to do taxes and if they don't, 75% fine with the profits correctly calculated.

Just bleed them dry.

[โ€“] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Because its much more profitable for the lawmakers to pocket a 150 million donation and leave the law alone.