Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief
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Of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, a new study estimates that 65% was due to the emissions of the wealthiest 10%.

Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

  • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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    1 day ago

    Oh, for sure eye opening. And looking further in the study was even like, hey, our numbers are not great, but here is a method we could use if we had better numbers. It’s the kind of paper you see that might lead to an actual study, but not meant to be definitive