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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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'Who will buy my house if they can't get insurance' (www.bbc.com)
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[–] flossdaily 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The government should institute a "you broke it, you bought it" policy with big oil companies, and tax the shit out of them to fund the second tier insurance that insurance companies use in order to hedge their own bets. Offer THAT insurance at a low fixed rate on the condition that insurance companies pass that stability on to consumers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair society benefited along with the companies. We should institute a carbon tax on all transactions - not just punish the energy companies.

Insurance rates should be higher in high risk areas. This is the most straight forward way to keep people from building in high risk areas. I really don't think we should subsidize Joe shmoe's insurance on the third rebuilding of his house.

[–] flossdaily 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be actually fair, these companies lied to the rest of us about the environmental damage they were doing, and have caused an untold number of deaths via the effects of climate change, with that number poised to shoot up exponentially.

The executives of those companies endangered our global ecosystem. It may even be the case that they have set us on a path to extinction.

They should all be in jail for life. Their companies should have been seized by the government and converted with all speed to renewable energy.

It's nothing short of suicidal insanity that that didn't happen the moment we discovered what they knew and hid from the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

After all, corporations are people. Prison time.

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