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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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Europe should cap energy use of richest to stay within carbon budget, study says (www.theguardian.com)
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Here is some cool data from 2019 of the per capita emissions of the richest 10% of certain countries. Most countries in the world the richest 10% have higher emissions then the average European. That is true even for poor countries like India and we are talking about millions of people here. A smart carbon tax is one of the best things you can do to close the gap between the rich and the poor. Europe is actually doing relaivly well in having a rather small gap between per capita emissions and per capita emissions of the richest 10%.